Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xenctld - a control channel multiplexing daemon

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jacob Gorm Hansen wrote:

> My current implementation is less than 100 lines of network-facing 
> code (using ICMP payloads, but the same could be achieved with UDP), 
> though that increases to about 300 if you count in the SHA-1 
> implementation that I am using for verifying customer credentials. So 
> 300 lines is for a complete solution including crypto and 
> accounting/payment.
That's certainly interesting.  Are you using ICMP simply for high-level 
management or are you passing event channel messages via ICMP? Are you 
just punting issues of reliability?
I agree with you, TCP is not the only network solution.  However, it 
seems logically that a large number of people will want a TCP solution :-)
Regards,

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Anthony Liguori
anthony@xxxxxxxxxxxxx



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