brr@abcom.ATT.COM (Rao) (04/13/90)
I had asked for the same info a few days ago. I would like to thank all those who sent me suggestions. I would like to explain my task once again. What we have is two different applications on two different machines, which use similar databases. We have to make inquiries on the contents of the remote database, for certain commands of the local application.Thus some inquiry is packaged and transferred to a remote machine and a reply is expected (I hate to say this) in real-time, i.e. 10-15 secs max. Now, what we have currently is a deamon on each machine, to which the local application programs pass inquiries addressed implicitly for the remote machine. The deamons take care of the inter-processor communications, and they employ the communications services of a uucp based software package. When a deamon receives inquiry from a remote machine (i.e. remote application), it invokes certain functions which handle (make) database queries and obtains the response. The response is then packaged and shipped back to the inquiring machine. What I would like to do is replace the uucp based communication package (which the deamons use for inter-processor on-line file transfers) by a TCP/IP based communication software. This TCP/IP based software can use the TLI interface, or sockets, or any other appropriate mechanism. I would like to again solicit info and suggestions from others on the net who have done something similar. thanks again, -bindu rama rao
brnstnd@stealth.acf.nyu.edu (04/15/90)
In article <23310@abcom.ATT.COM> brr@abcom.ATT.COM (Rao) writes: > What I would like to do is replace the uucp based communication > package (which the deamons use for inter-processor on-line > file transfers) by a TCP/IP based communication software. > This TCP/IP based software can use the TLI interface, or > sockets, or any other appropriate mechanism. I immodestly recommend my auth package, appearing at Rich's whim in comp.sources.unix. Programs built to work on top of auth can be made completly independent of the communications mechanism, to the extent that someone could swap UUCP or NS or whatever versions of authtcp and attachport for my TCP versions, and the programs wouldn't notice. ---Dan