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Re: [Xouvert-general] Network transparentcy and modules (was: platforms)


From: William Lahti
Subject: Re: [Xouvert-general] Network transparentcy and modules (was: platforms)
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 02:58:26 -0400
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On Monday 18 August 2003 9:05 pm, Mark C. Ballew wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 00:30, William Lahti wrote:
> > On Monday 18 August 2003 6:43 pm, address@hidden wrote:
> > > > You must have read the wiki after it had gotten vandalized again. We
> > > > cannot
> > > > get rid of network transparency :)
> > >
> > > Have you thought about removing network transparency and replacing it
> > > with a network "plug-in" or module system?
> > >
> > > The idea would be that someone could plug in any sort of network
> > > transparent back end, be it IPv4, IPv6, DECnet, AppleTalk (*cough*) or
> > > Myrinet's GM message passing. The idea is to be able to easily switch
> > > between different types of network protocols.
> > >
> > > I don't know how the addition of IPv6 is going for X, but I'd be
> > > curious to hear how hard it was to add and if X is heavily tied to
> > > IPv4.
> > >
> > > Mark
> >
> > We *cannot* remove network transparency. Period. There is absolutely no
> > question about it whatsoever. X11 *is* a _network_ protocol.
> >
> > I think the reason everyone thinks its slow, is because everyone thinks
> > that X11 on a local machine goes thru tcp/ip. It doesnt. It uses UNIX
> > sockets which are very fast.
>
> Oh no, this totally isn't what I'm getting at. I was suggesting that the
> network transparency be even more transparent, by allowing different
> network protocols to be plugged in. I know to an extent this already
> exists, but I don't know if it is hard coded in or easily to modify.
>
> I'm thinking along the lines of using custom, upcoming, and proprietary
> protocols to remote display (like over Myrinet or Dolphin networks).
>
> Mark

A lot of protocols are supported right now. TCP/IP, UNIX sockets, decnet, 
among others.

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