On Nov 16, 2011, at 10:22 AM, Pieter Hintjens wrote: > On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Chuck Remes <cremes.devl...@mac.com> wrote: > >> 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? > > In some cases the service can allocate the ID sequentially to new > clients. (Not seeing anything of the protocol makes this discussion > somewhat moot.)
Ah! Good idea! This would require the Client portion of the protocol to include a READY-type message so it could be assigned an ID by the Broker. I'll look at this. cr _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list zeromq-dev@lists.zeromq.org http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
