[zeromq-dev] Many to many

[Lee Sylvester]

Thank you, Justin. I had heard rumours, but its almost unfathomable :-D

Lee

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On 17 Feb 2013, at 07:33, Justin Karneges <justin at affinix.com> wrote:

> Bind vs connect is independent of socket type. You can bind a SUB socket and 
> connect many PUB sockets to it.
> 
> So, you could have each service bind a PUB socket and a SUB socket, and then 
> connect each to all other services' SUB sockets and PUB sockets respectively.
> 
> On Sunday, February 17, 2013 07:22:27 AM Lee Sylvester wrote:
>> Thank you for your reply, Witney, but I need it the other way. I need a sub
>> socket to be connected to multiple pub endpoints... This is because every
>> instance will have a single publisher, telling all who is interested about
>> events, but that same service will want to list to an arbitrary number of
>> other services for their events. Essentially, I'd be forming a type of
>> mesh, where each service has  two endpoint (pub and sub) and all connect to
>> all. I knew pub could connect to many, as it binds, but I'm guessing the
>> subs cannot connect to many?
>> 
>> Thanks loads,
>> Lee
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>> On 17 Feb 2013, at 05:18, Whitney Jackson <whjackson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Is it possible for a sub socket to bind to multiple pub sockets?
>>> 
>>> Yes. You can call bind and/or connect on a socket as many times at you
>>> like.> 
>>>> If so, where is there an example of this?
>>> 
>>> Here's an example from the guide where a pub socket is bound to multiple
>>> endpoints:
>>> 
>>> http://zguide.zeromq.org/page:all#Getting-the-Message-Out
>>> 
>>> If you connect a sub socket to multiple endpoints then it gets a message
>>> whenever any of the publishers to which it's connected send.> 
>>> On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Lee Sylvester <lee.sylvester at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>>> Hey guys,
>>>> 
>>>> So, I want to do a many to many pubsub.  I already have a discovery
>>>> mechanism and logging, but what I need is for a service to bind to a pub
>>>> socket and subscribe to a set list of instances of itself on the server
>>>> and other servers. The Zyre framework, although awesome, seems a little
>>>> large for my needs as I already have a number of the features it
>>>> supplies built in to my framework. Is it possible for a sub socket to
>>>> bind to multiple pub sockets?  If so, where is there an example of this?
>>>> Can I also add a pub socket to listen to when all is already running?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Lee
>>>> 
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