On Nov 16, 2011, at 1:19 AM, Martin Sustrik wrote: > Hi Chuck, > >> The UUID would uniquely identify each client. > > Give some thought to what do you want to uniquely identify. Is it any client > ever? If so, UUID is probably the right way to go. However, if all you need > is to uniquely identify a client of a particular server instance, 32-bit > integer should do.
I need to uniquely identify the client for the life of the service. I assume the service could live for days, weeks or months (years seems a stretch). How would I choose a 32-bit integer independently from many hosts and avoid collisions? The issue of collisions is why I chose UUID. If you have an algorithm for achieving this with a 32-bit integer, please share. I would gladly use it to save 12-bytes out of each message. cr _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list zeromq-dev@lists.zeromq.org http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
