Re: How can my app talk to other instances, networked and local?

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From: Bob Gonder
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 00:30

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Remy Lebeau (TeamB) wrote:

>Then I do not suggest UDP for that.  UDP is not reliable in general - it
>does not guarantee packet delivery nor packet byte order like TCP does.

I'm still trying to figure out what you _would_ suggest.  :-)

>> Are you suggesting PGM instead of UDP?
>
>I have no idea what PGM is.

Reliable Multicasting.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/winsock/winsock/pgm_senders_and_receivers.asp

>Sounds like what you really need is a single file server that all clients go
>to, and the server handles and directs the requests for data, openings,
>closings, etc. and notifies the rest of the clients accordingly when needed.

C/S? Thought about it, then shuddered and moved on.
I can see several advantages to CS, but my gut tells me it'd be a
nightmare.  As is, it takes a new customer a couple months to figure
out that they need to have the main computer turned on so they can get
at the data (about 1/5 of my clients have a server, the rest  are just
peers). How many more calls would come in because they didn't start my
server app? Or it hung up or aborted?

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Subject: Re: How can my app talk to other instances, networked and local?
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