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On 1999-05-27T09:20:46,
Wensong Zhang <wensong@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> In the current code, you should understand that there are limits on how big a
> message can be. Also,there is no retransmission or error correction protocol,
> so this needs to be taken into account. Also, since a newline is a delimiter
> (at least in the serial version), so you can't easily send binary data.
The messages are very small - they basically just need carry the entry from
the table, which I assume would fit nicely into 80characters if exported from
the kernel via printk() and reimported on the other side with a sysctl...
What might be a problem is the number of messages, since the most
straightforward approach would be to print that at setup time, and we would
see a ton of UDP packets. I think the userlevel process should take care of
that and only broadcast every 5s or so. This of course implies we might lose
the last 5s of connections when a failover occurs, but this can probably be
dealt with.
Sincerely,
Lars Marowsky-Brée
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Lars Marowsky-Brée
Network Management
teuto.net Netzdienste GmbH - DPN Verbund-Partner
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