3. Running the stack

3 Running the stack

3.1 Starting

A user may have a number of "virtual" connections to other users. An MG is connected to at most one MGC, while an MGC may be connected to any number of MG's. For each connection the user selects a transport service, an encoding scheme and a user callback module.

An MGC must initiate its transport service in order to listen to MG's trying to connect. How the actual transport is initiated is outside the scope of this application. However a send handle (typically a socket id or host and port) must be provided from the transport service in order to enable us to send the message to the correct destination. We do however not assume anything about this, from our point of view, opaque handle. Hopefully it is rather small since it will passed around the system between processes rather frequently.

A user may either be statically configured in a .config file according to the application concept of Er