Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:07:26 -0800 (PST)
Message-Id: <20071207.180726.22868921.davem@davemloft.net>
To: renzo@cs.unibo.it
Cc: andi@firstfloor.org, cfriesen@nortel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: AF_IPN: Inter Process Networking, try these...
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
In-Reply-To: <20071207211804.GA8293@cs.unibo.it>
References: <20071206.224005.42816421.davem@davemloft.net>
	<20071207100322.GM20595@one.firstfloor.org>
	<20071207211804.GA8293@cs.unibo.it>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
Content-Length: 753
Lines: 18

From: renzo@cs.unibo.it (Renzo Davoli)
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 22:18:05 +0100

> I disagree. If you suspect we would be better using IP multicast, I think
> your suspects are not supported.
> Try the following exercises, please.... Can you provide better solutions
> without IPN?

I personally have not purely advocated IP, although the performance
differences UDP and AF_UNIX should be investigated.

Instead I advocated using AF_NETLINK with some minor multicast
permission modifications to suit your needs.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/