Subject: Re: RPC over UDP: connect the socket?
To: None <M.Drochner@fz-juelich.de>
From: Luke Mewburn <lukem@cs.rmit.edu.au>
List: tech-net
Date: 04/13/1999 23:08:26
Matthias Drochner writes:
>  [...]
>
> But there is another way to solve the original problem: use
> TCP to register RPC services with the portmapper. Remote clients
> wouldn't benefit, but it's still an improvement for servers.
>
>  [...]
> 
> The appended patch works well for me - are there reasons
> not to change it? (the RPC_ANYSOCK is cosmetics of course)

If you run with it for a while and it works, then that's great.
I personally can't see a problem with changing it from UDP to TCP,
but I'm not an RPC guru (even though I have worked on the code;
I deny everything! :-)