[AFS3-std] Re: Encoding IPvN addresses

Derrick Brashear shadow@gmail.com
Wed, 9 Feb 2011 21:06:35 -0500


notably, when i discover cell dbserver info, each server runs (at
least) vl and pt servers. the address is the same. why do i want to
transmit it once for each port, as opposed to, say,
an address, a vl port, a pt port, (maybe other ports).

On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 8:58 PM, Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz@cmu.edu> wrote:
> --On Wednesday, February 09, 2011 08:36:53 PM -0500 Derrick Brashear
> <shadow@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> I support having port numbers so that hosting multiple cells on the sam=
e
>>> host may be possible. How would port numbers be handled, if not alongsi=
de
>>> the address?
>>
>> as another element in an RPC payload?
>
> Exactly. =A0Alongside the address, not as part of it.
>



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Derrick