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diff --git a/docs/network/README b/docs/network/README index c817332..edfacb2 100644 --- a/docs/network/README +++ b/docs/network/README @@ -1,5 +1,19 @@ Goals: -- +- text-based protocols, telnetish, TCP/IPish +- comminucate over sockets (requests to services), both in client- + (connect) and server-mode (bind,listen,accept) +- there should be no difference whether we talk to sockets, pipes + of an external process or a file +- how events are colleted (select,poll,kqueue,/dev/poll,epoll,etc.) + should be abstracted +- should be usable in single- and multithreaded environment +- we should scale, but not in the webserver-style (which would be + optimization done too early in the wrong direction!) +- protocols should be designable like a Russian Nested Doll for being + fast in business layer to device new protocols suiting the problem +- reach the 100MBit/s sustained transfer rate (yes I know, there are + Gigabits/s NICs out there, but their speed is almost impossible to + reach) Links: - Boost ASIO: on design @@ -10,4 +24,6 @@ Links: machine, a lot of useful links - http://www.bullopensource.org/posix: POSIX effort to normalize asynchronous I/O interfaces +- Boinc: http://boinc.berkeley.edu: some ideas around protocol FSMs in + networking |