NAME

zmq_tipc - 0MQ unicast transport using TIPC

SYNOPSIS

TIPC is a cluster IPC protocol with a location transparent addressing scheme.

ADDRESSING

A 0MQ endpoint is a string consisting of a 'transport'`://` followed by an 'address'. The 'transport' specifies the underlying protocol to use. The 'address' specifies the transport-specific address to connect to.

For the TIPC transport, the transport is tipc, and the meaning of the 'address' part is defined below.

Assigning a port name to a socket

When assigning a port name to a socket using zmq_bind() with the 'tipc' transport, the 'endpoint' is defined in the form: {type, lower, upper}

  • Type is the numerical (u32) ID of your service.

  • Lower and Upper specify a range for your service.

Publishing the same service with overlapping lower/upper ID’s will cause connection requests to be distributed over these in a round-robin manner.

Connecting a socket

When connecting a socket to a peer address using zmq_connect() with the 'tipc' transport, the 'endpoint' shall be interpreted as a service ID, followed by a comma and the instance ID.

The instance ID must be within the lower/upper range of a published port name for the endpoint to be valid.

EXAMPLES

Assigning a local address to a socket
//  Publish TIPC service ID 5555
rc = zmq_bind(socket, "tipc://{5555,0,0}");
assert (rc == 0);
//  Publish TIPC service ID 5555 with a service range of 0-100
rc = zmq_bind(socket, "tipc://{5555,0,100}");
assert (rc == 0);
Connecting a socket
//  Connect to service 5555 instance id 50
rc = zmq_connect(socket, "tipc://{5555,50}");
assert (rc == 0);

SEE ALSO

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