Re: Other protocols? (e.g., db connections)?

[Paul Lindner <lindner inuus com>]

On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 04:49:06PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Russell Leighton wrote:
> 
> > Would the TUX framework be appropriate for use for user space heavy
> > apps with their own protocol? In particular, would it be
> > useful/effective for a database <-> client connection when the client
> > is remote?
> 
> well, if the client is HTTP-aware, then yes. You can use a userspace
> module and POSTPONE_REQ/CONTINUE_REQ on the server to decouple the
> database server process from TUX itself.
> 
> it's possible to add support for other protocols to TUX too, but the
> effort required (in terms of kernel-space programming) can be significant.
> I'd suggest to use HTTP as a universial client-server request/response
> protocol, and just wrap your particular application protocol into HTTP.

Has anyone looked at making icecast TUX aware?  I'm looking for an
excuse to start playing around with tux...

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Paul Lindner
lindner@inuus.com