gonzalo diethelm wrote: > Say I have many different programs running on a network, all of them > built using 0MQ. I have been thinking about having a supervisor that > every so often sends a "ping" message, gathers the responses from all > programs and tells me useful information about them (starting with who > is responding to the ping message). > > Can this be done with multicast? Could I have each program do a bind on > a multicast endpoint (probably on a separate thread) and, when receiving > the ping message, answer back using the same endpoint / channel? The > advantage I see about doing things this way is that each program only > needs to know the endpoint it has to bind to, and the supervisor does > not need to know how many programs there are (as long as all of them are > reachable through multicast). Or is there a better way to do this?
Yes. I think using multicast for this kind of thing makes sense. Martin _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
