OpenSockets and multiple stacks...?

[Lynch, Jonathan]

Another solution, following along these lines...

If the classroom network has a shared drive, then you can use tcp
connections to send a message to each computer that simple says "refresh
now" or something like that.

Each client computer, upon receiving that message, would then refresh
the stack from the shared drive.

This might not be as interesting as the other approaches, but would be
very easy to do.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Mark
Wieder
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 3:08 AM
To: How to use Revolution
Subject: Re: OpenSockets and multiple stacks...?

Alex-

Tuesday, October 25, 2005, 5:52:12 PM, you wrote:

> The other option would be to do it as a peer-to-peer distribution
using
> local repeaters - an even more interesting protocol design problem,
but
> probably even less pragmatic a choice :-)

Another way to tackle this would be to have the student stacks
"subscribe" to the instructors stack by opening socket connections.
Then the instructors stack could just push out messages to the
subscribed sockets. This would save you from having to use multicast
packets and give you a finite and known pool of sockets to deal with.
(Although the peer-to-peer approach is most definitely the more
interesting way to go about designing it).

-- 
-Mark Wieder
 mwieder at ahsoftware.net

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