SYNOPSIS

TIPC is a cluster IPC protocol with a location transparent addressing scheme.

ADDRESSING

A ØMQ endpoint is a string consisting of a transport:// followed by an address. The transport specifies the underlying protocol to use. The address specifies the transport-specific address to connect to.

For the TIPC transport, the transport is tipc, and the meaning of the address part is defined below.

Assigning a port name to a socket

When assigning a port name to a socket using _zmq_bind()_ with the 'tipc'
transport, the 'endpoint' is defined in the form:
{type, lower, upper}

* Type is the numerical (u32) ID of your service.
* Lower and Upper specify a range for your service.

Publishing the same service with overlapping lower/upper ID's will
cause connection requests to be distributed over these in a round-robin
manner.


Connecting a socket

When connecting a socket to a peer address using zmq_connect() with the tipc transport, the endpoint shall be interpreted as a service ID, followed by a comma and the instance ID.

The instance ID must be within the lower/upper range of a published port name for the endpoint to be valid.

EXAMPLES

Assigning a local address to a socket
//  Publish TIPC service ID 5555
rc = zmq_bind(socket, "tipc://{5555,0,0}");
assert (rc == 0);
//  Publish TIPC service ID 5555 with a service range of 0-100
rc = zmq_bind(socket, "tipc://{5555,0,100}");
assert (rc == 0);
Connecting a socket
//  Connect to service 5555 instance id 50
rc = zmq_connect(socket, "tipc://{5555,50}");
assert (rc == 0);

SEE ALSO

zmq_bind(3) zmq_connect(3) zmq_tcp(7) zmq_pgm(7) zmq_ipc(7) zmq_inproc(7) zmq(7)

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