Hi,
I've got a suggestion which might help to fasten the development of the
TCP communication systems. We can use a demon as a TCP to UDP bridge for
each piece of the system. The demon would listen to one or more TCP port
and then send the received data as local UDP on the same machine. It will
also read from local UDP and pass it over the network using TCP. There
will be no need to change the any modules, as they can simply use local
UDP ports. This way, the demon could send a new type of message (a so
called KA maybe) to sender if there is a problem in sending the data over
the network (although this should be used with very small ttl.) However, I
think it needs a bit more thought and it might not be practical at all.
This seems to be a patch rather than a real solution, but at least it can
be used temporarily with some modules while working on the others. We can
start with the patch and then little by little remove it for each module.
-- Mahdi Milani Fard Member of UTEternity Tehran, Iran
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