[zeromq-dev] proxying CURVE ?

[Laurent Alebarde]

zmrp ? Do you mean RFC ?

Le 29/11/2013 16:42, Pieter Hintjens a écrit :
>
> So to make this work in libzmq you would have to add explicit proxy 
> semantics to zmrp and implement in libzmq. Much like http proxying. It 
> is a major project. Doable technically.
>
> On Nov 29, 2013 3:37 PM, "Laurent Alebarde" <l.alebarde at free.fr 
> <mailto:l.alebarde at free.fr>> wrote:
>
>     It means exactly what I wrote in my first message : proxying
>     CURVE. Let me copy/paste it here:
>
>     CLIENT (CURVE) ------- (NULL) PROXY (NULL) ---------- (CURVE) WORKER
>
>     With the following constraints on the proxy: it SHALL be
>     ROUTER/ROUTER, and SHALL maintain a table that assign on client
>     always to the same worker for the socket TTL.
>
>     So it makes sense. It has several advantages: load balance
>     handchecks, enable heavier mechanisms, hide the handcheck in
>     workers, behind the front-end.
>
>     I am going to test some additional options to distinguish the
>     socket mechanism option from the puplished one (the one
>     communicated on the wire to the peer), so that both client and
>     worker can use CURVE, but exhibit NULL to the proxy. Of course,
>     the proxy here is not proxy.cpp, but a special proxy taking into
>     account the constraints depicted above.
>
>     CLIENT (CURVE)(NULL) ------- (NULL) RR_PROXY (NULL) ----------
>     (NULL) (CURVE) WORKER
>
>     If it works, are you interested by a pull request ? Of course,
>     default beheviour will be unchanged.
>
>     Cheers,
>
>
>     Laurent.
>
>
>     P.S. : I am not used to eating my feet. The idea is just disgusting.
>
>
>     Le 29/11/2013 15:16, Pieter Hintjens a écrit :
>>     On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Laurent Alebarde<l.alebarde at free.fr>  <mailto:l.alebarde at free.fr>  wrote:
>>
>>>     I don't want to use raw TCP, and I would prefer sticking to libzmq. So, I
>>>     raise the question: wouldn't it be a good idea to be able to proxy CURVE as
>>>     depicted below ? Is it today impossible as a design choice to avoid misuse ?
>>     How can a CURVE peer talk to a NULL peer? What does that even mean?
>>     It's like asking whether you can eat with your foot... even if you put
>>     the words together, it is nonsensical. It's not disabled by design.
>>
>>     -Pieter
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