Re: Sockets question...

["Mike Silvers" <msilvers@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

David,

Yes, I mean ports.  I understand about sockets being spawned (and Scott's
tutorial is great!).  I would still like to reduce the timeout when a
particular port is not open on the server side.

Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Gibbs" <david@midrange.com>
To: <java400-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 6:54 PM
Subject: Re: Sockets question...


> At 05:43 PM 7/29/2002, you wrote:
> >I am using an RPG server socket and a Java client socket for
inter-program
> >communications.  It is F-A-S-T!  I have several socket servers running on
> >the 400 (in RPG).  My clients will try the first socket.  If that socket
is
> >available, it will use that socket.  If that socket is not open, it will
go
> >to the next socket server and test it.  Here is my problem.  The time it
> >takes trying to connect to a server that is not running is too long.  Is
> >there any way to shorten the time for a connect timeout?
>
> I'm doing the same thing at work ... you're right, it is quite fast... and
> a lot easier than I thought it would be (the java part is super simple).
>
> Question: when you are referring to the first socket, and the next socket
> (in your message), are you talking about ports?
>
> Strictly speaking, your RPG program should have a single program that
> listens to the port (I call it a monitor) and, when it receives a
> connection, it should hand the connection off to another program (a
> daemon).  The daemon's should be self replicating (when one is consumed,
> another should be spawned).
>
> Since all the monitor program does is listen for connections and hand them
> off, it's very very fast and there should never be a situation when you
> experience a timeout.
>
> The monitor program hands the socket to the daemon via the
"GiveDescriptor"
> api, and the daemon gets the socket via the "TakeDescriptor" api (I'm not
> 100% sure on the names of the API).
>
> Scott Klements sockets tutorial covers this in chapter 7, at
> http://klement.dstorm.net/rpg/socktut/spawnserver.html.
>
> david
>
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