Re: [Ganglia-developers] the multicast chains have been broken

2004-02-26 Thread Josh Durham
Personally, I think that complicates things. I'd keep one variable for the port, regardless of whether it is unicast, or multicast. What might work, is that if msg_channel = a local interface, listen, else send to msg_channel. Also, do the mute/deaf flags still apply? So, you can mute a gmo

Re: [Ganglia-developers] the multicast chains have been broken

2004-02-26 Thread Matt Massie
doh. clearly.. i need to change that. msg_port_out msg_port_in perhaps? i meant.. it only open the port if msg_port_in is explicitly set. excuse me while i go hang my head in shame and quickly alter the code. -matt On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 20:42, Josh Durham wrote: > > if it's a unicast channe

Re: [Ganglia-developers] the multicast chains have been broken

2004-02-26 Thread Josh Durham
if it's a unicast channel, gmond configures itself a little differently. gmond will send messages on the unicast channel (which will write to a single host) but it will NOT listen to unicast messages unless "msg_port" is explicitly set. I may be missing something here, but how do you configure

Re: [Ganglia-developers] the multicast chains have been broken

2004-02-26 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 07:17:05PM -0800, Matt Massie wrote: > i think brooks comment on the compressed XML is right on target. it > doesn't make sense to make put zlib compression on a separate port. it > make more sense to have a web server port (and the old style simple tcp > socket as well).

[Ganglia-developers] the multicast chains have been broken

2004-02-26 Thread Matt Massie
ok so the title is a little extreme (but true). i've been workin' hella hard to get the 2.6.0 release ready to go. the 2.5.7 release i've talked about (w/ the great solaris stuff and xml compression).. got morphed into 2.6.0 before it was released. we might as well go for the gold here and give