D-BUS for Network RPC

Rob Taylor robtaylor@fastmail.fm
Wed Jan 19 09:13:32 PST 2005


On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 11:53 -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > - How stable/tested is the TCP transport?
> 
> The code is virtually all the same as the local socket transport, so I
> wouldn't expect problems except for one: there's no reasonable
> authentication mechanism implemented for TCP.

>From experience I would expect some problems due to the fact that TCP
doesn't quite totally hide its internals. Definitly do some testing with
various message sizes. You might want to consider making it run over
SCTP, as thats much more suited to this kind of traffic.

Rob Taylor




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