Re: [JXTA discuss] IP mobility

Mohamed Abdelaziz <[email protected]> Thu, 21 Jul 2005 16:22:50 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.jxta.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I abbreviated ps for PipeSender, and pl for PipeListener

Giorgos Georgakoudis wrote:

>I am sorry, a stupid question. What the pl stands for?
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>Giorgis Georgakoudis
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>From: "Mohamed Abdelaziz" <[email protected]>
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>Subject: Re: [JXTA discuss] IP mobility
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>>I revisited the tcp transport and it appears that the incoming server
>>thread can deal with a closed ServerSocket (due to an ip address
>>change), and continue accepting connections, however I don't see any
>>code which updates a peers access point advertisement with the new
>>physical address.  It's very likely that back channels are used to
>>establish communication. otherwise the sending peer would have been able
>>resume communication just fine without having to re-resolve the pipe.
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>>ps -- query for pipe --> pl
>>pl --  connects  to ps, sends pipe resolver response --> ps
>>ps -- uses back channel (the above connection) to create a messenger -->
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>pl
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>>IncomingUnicastServer needs to detect this change (beyond closure
>>detection), and notify the endpoint router of the change. Then we would
>>have "hot mobility" support. I'll see what can be done, at which point I
>>will look for you to run some tests.
>>
>>Mohamed
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>>Giorgos Georgakoudis wrote:
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>>>Hello,
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>>>Mohamed we had a conservation yesterday about how the network
>>>interface changes reflect on jxta. If I remembered correctly on direct
>>>connections you mentioned that the jxta java binding cannot cope with
>>>ip changes but using a relay peer there is no problem. Please correct
>>>me if I am wrong.
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>>When using a relay, other peers can send a message to a peer's virtual
>>address (the relay) when physical addresses are invalid. Retrieving
>>messages (outbound connections) are not affected by any interface
>>address change.
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>>>I created a test program where there is PipeListener and a PipeSender.
>>>Without a relay peer I started the communication (PipeSender sends a
>>>hello message every 2 seconds). Then I disconnected and reconnected
>>>the PipeListener (observing an IP change) and it works! The only
>>>"trick" I used is that a create an OutputPipe for every hello
>>>message I sent using createOutputPipe() in PipeService with a timeout
>>>that retries when it fails to create one using the same pipe
>>>advertisement that I discovered before otherwise by creating one
>>>OutputPipe since the beginning of the comm I would get an exception
>>>saying Pipe Closed. So internally Jxta routing protocol gets informed
>>>about the network interface changes for a give peer id, right?
>>>
>>>Best regards,
>>>
>>>Giorgis Georgakoudis
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