Re: Why GNU Mach is so different?

[Thomas Bushnell, BSG]

Farid Hajji <farid.hajji@ob.kamp.net> writes:

> > > 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?

No, that's not necesary.  At least in IPv4, multicast is too uncertain
to rely on.

But there are other tricks that can work. :)