Hi, what are my options for reliable multicast in c# /.Net 3.5?
I don’t want to use MSMQ.
I am open to commercial as well as open source options.
Thanks
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A:
http://www.29west.com/ claims to be the lowest latency reliable multicast solution available. I have not verified this claim, but in talking to them, it seems that their biggest competition is not some other vendor, but in house developemnt. Why not just set up your own multicast group, and use it directly? Chapter 21 of "Unix Network Programming Volume 1" describes how to do this.
bobmcn
2009-05-20 16:41:06
Yeah, they also claim an oxymoron of remote/local DMA too. It's just a socket and most hardware these days bypasses the CPU on modern OS-es plus interfaces/drivers are far smarter. But big corps love to buy into simple socket servers for decades, amazing how far marketing a box of matches can go. Completely agree with direct use and upvoting for that part; but someone sooner or later will hit on alarmingly spreading 30east LBM (largescale blx marketing) as if network is not the bottleneck. – Majkara Tito 0 secs ago
rama-jka toti
2009-05-20 18:00:21
A:
The pragmatic variant, PGM, it's in your Windows image, look for it on say server 2003, even XP and friends.. there are socket options for it (Rdm or similar).
rama-jka toti
2009-05-20 18:00:04