[zeromq-dev] ROUTER sockets and IDENTITY

[Mark Barbisan]

Hi Pieter,

Thank you for the quick response.

The behaviour I was thinking about would be very simple: when the router socket encounters a connection with an already taken identity, it allows the new connection to assume that identity. 

>From my very limited knowledge of the code, it seems that the router socket maintains a map of the identity to a pair of pipes that can have queued messages. So hopefully this 'identity switch' would maintain these queues. That is, any queued messages would have to be transferred to the queues for the new connection, rather than just dropping them. 

This new behaviour could be enabled via a new flag for zmq_setsockopt.  However, it would have to assume a trusted/secured network.

What do you think? 

- Mark.

-----Original Message-----
From: zeromq-dev-bounces at lists.zeromq.org [mailto:zeromq-dev-bounces at lists.zeromq.org] On Behalf Of Pieter Hintjens
Sent: June-27-13 2:05 PM
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Subject: Re: [zeromq-dev] ROUTER sockets and IDENTITY

You're right, the reconnection will be refused the right to reuse the identity. We could change this if you can find a sensible semantic.

-Pieter

On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Mark Barbisan <Mark.Barbisan at evault.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> ZeroMQ supports multiple NICs for its sockets. If a client gets disconnected with queued messages, it will automatically try to reconnect with the other available NICs. However, there is a problem if the client has set its socket identity (using ZMQ_IDENTITY). The identity does not change upon reconnect. A server with a ROUTER socket that receives the new client's connection will see the same ZMQ_IDENTITY again. However, since the new incoming connection uses a different address (due to a different NIC) but has the same identity, the ROUTER socket will automatically place it into a list of "anonymous" connections. The client has no way of receiving responses.
>
> Does ZeroMQ provide a facility to reassign identities for the clients of ROUTER sockets?
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Mark.
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