[zeromq-dev] Comment on ZRE spec flaw

[Michael Haberler]

Am 21.02.2013 um 10:31 schrieb Bjorn Reese:

> On 2013-02-20 10:29, Michael Haberler wrote:
> 
>> - a joining node A sends its own node ID, PLUS a list of all node ID's it has already heard (which may be empty at startup)
> 
> This got me thinking...
> 
> In the following I am not trying to solve a consistency problem, but
> rather to suggest an optimization opportunity.
> 
> According to RFC 20, "Each ZRE node SHALL broadcast, at regular
> intervals, a UDP beacon that identifies itself to any listening nodes
> on the network."
> 
> If the beacon not only contains information about the sending node, but
> also the peers that the sender is aware of, then those peers do not
> need to broadcast themselves, thus saving network traffic. The list
> should not included all known peers, but only as many as will fit into
> a single UDP package.
> 
> Information about peers would have to include their IP addresses.
> 
> Peer disappearance is handled via heartbeating.

OSPF uses the neighbor lists for two purposes:

- to build a tree of router adjacencies
- to assure communication between neighbors is actually two-way

I think the first purpose isnt terribly relevant for ZRE

the second possibly could be useful to fight protocol autism ;)

- Michael



> 
> PS: What is the rationale for creating the Zyre discovery protocol
> rather than reusing one of the existing discovery protocols (ZeroConf,
> SSDP, SLP, etc.) ?
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