18 Sep
1997
18 Sep
'97
7:54 p.m.
The cyclic stuff in News recently has hammered home that the search for elegance pays off. I "initially" solved the problem of having multiple machines with the same IP by postulating IP-stack hackery involving forwarding any packets that come in for sockets that don't exist to a central database-forwarder machine that keeps track of all open tcp sessions on all replicated machines, but it turns out that there are some much easier non-stack-hackery-mandatory solutions. Avi