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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
- POCO Net classes: on design
- http://www.kegel.com/rn/: an epoll/kqueue abstraction interface in C,
good for idea hunting
- http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html: how to get more than 10k clients on a
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
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