This tutorial that focuses on dealer and router sockets might also help explain things a bit more too. When in doubt, the zguide text takes precedence but this tutorial should still be correct.
http://zeromq.org/tutorials:dealer-and-router cr On Jul 25, 2014, at 3:17 PM, Badhrinath Manoharan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Peter, > > No issues at all. I totally get your thoughts here. Thanks a lot again for > the detailed response. > > I just got misled that we could use Router - Dealer as similar to Rep - Req > socket. Moreover I had one client and one server so thought it might work. > > Anyways thanks a lot for correcting my understanding. Will surely give it a > try and update the thread. > > Thanks again > Badhri > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jul 25, 2014, at 1:33 AM, Pieter Hintjens <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Sorry if that email seemed unpolite; it was late and I'd been driving >> for 10 hours with three small kids who refused to sleep. >> >> So, ROUTER sockets always prefix the incoming message with an extra >> frame that holds a routing id (aka "identity"), that identifies which >> pipe the message came in from. You stick that same frame back before >> outgoing replies, and the ROUTER socket then knows which pipe to send >> it to. >> >> These IDs start with a binary zero. If you try to printf them, the >> result is an empty string. In my example code, if you tried it, the >> print shows this ID frame quite clearly. >> >> This is explained in detail in Chapter 3 of the Guide, and briefly in >> the zmq_socket man page for ZMQ_ROUTER. >> >> It is not trivial, and you should really read the Guide and work >> through the examples before trying to use ROUTER. >> >> -Pieter >> >> On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 12:53 AM, Pieter Hintjens <[email protected]> wrote: >>> You're not reading the man pages, nor documentation, nor example >>> output properly. >> _______________________________________________ >> zeromq-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev > _______________________________________________ > zeromq-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
