[REBOL] Re: P2P Q&A
From: holger:rebol at: 30-Sep-2001 22:17
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 06:15:42AM +0200, Petr Krenzelok wrote:
> I can understand it. That would be great. I think that Maarten's Rugby is
> heading that way. Now more direct and technical question - is it technically
> possible to accept connection (conn: first listen-port), and once done, pass the
> connection to another node (rebol process on the same machine, remote rebol
> process) to handle such request? I mean - the topology where we have one server
> listening, and distributing requests to another processes/machines, without
> further involvement ... Theoretically we are talking packets here, but once
> connection is approved between two machines, both sides register remote ip, port
> number assigned by operating system, etc. So? :-)
Only in one of two ways: either by having the peer create a separate
connection (in that case the first server acts as a lookup system), or
by having the first server forward all data to another machine,
through a separate connection (in that case the first server acts as a
proxy).
--
Holger Kruse
[holger--rebol--com]
