Re: Why GNU Mach is so different?

[Farid Hajji]

> > Network-wide unique identifiers like task-IDs, ports, etc... are a nice
> > thing to have. One idea may be to organize all nodes of a collective
> > in a distributed kind of (hurdisch) filesystem. IDs would then be
> > simple paths and could be located with some kind of distributed
> > lookup() functionality:
> 
> It was always my plan to have a single IP address for a collective.  
> (The collective might use IP for communication between its component
> systems, but those addresses would be entirely internal.)

You certainly want to assign a multicast IP address to the collective,
right?

-Farid.

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