[Openmosix-devel] Re: socket migration quick hack

[Moshe B. <mo...@mo...>]

Yes, in theory that could work, and, yes, it is hard to code. Also very 
time intensive. We will get socket migration at one point, for sure.

Moshe


On Thursday, May 29, 2003, at 14:16 US/Pacific, Bob Arctor wrote:

> i wondered about simple hack for socket migration, and i thought about
> what i thought about before... that process migrating to other node
> would migate with _ip of origin_ node (i.e. instead of contacting 
> origin
> node to exchange data, it would just remember it's ip adress , and
> 'spoof' output . ofcourse this will not work for 127.0.0.1, switched
> networks, networks with anti-spoof mechanisms, etc.
> but :
> 1)i think it is quickest way
> 2) one could disable this in /proc/pid/socket_migration_level (and 
> possibly
> there could be 'default' option like mosrun -L locks pid , -S would 
> lock
> sockets)
> 3)127.0.0.1/8 have to go to origin node anyway :p
>
> does this make any sense ? is it very hard to code?
>