[omniORB] Does omniORB support IP multicast?

[Jonathan Gallmeier]

Duncan Grisby wrote:
> 
> On Monday 11 October, Jonathan Gallmeier wrote:
> 
> > This might be a silly question, but I have not seen any info about this.
> > Does omniORB
> > support (UDP) IP multicast?
> 
> No it does not. For normal CORBA requests, multicast would not be
> useful, since a CORBA request has a single target object. Multicast
> could be useful for event or notification services which are layered
> on top of CORBA, but we have no plans to support such things.
> 
> What in particular do you wish to achieve?

I'm working on a project where I have one machine generating data that
must be distributed
to N machines equally, as fast as possible using a painfully slow link
(~9600 bps at best).
To make matters worse, the network hardware that controls this slow data
link is arbitrated
such that I am not guaranteed immediate access to the network link. I
would like to avoid
sending the data set N times over the network. What I really want is a
cross between the trader
service and the event service (and a federated name service), I think. I
digress...
This all raised the question as to a typical implementation of the event
service. From what I
have seen, the event service would end up sending my data N times over
this slow network anyway,
hence my original post.

jonathan

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> Duncan.
> 
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