[Nel] Network Connections

Fri, 02 Mar 2001 14:18:32 -0500

When you talk about network connections how are they going to work?  For 
+example when say a player wants to find out what he/she has in his 
+inivitroy how does the client get this information.  Does the client 
+talk deriectly to the items sever or does it first contact another 
+server, that it would contact for every data request, and which then 
+goes asks the items server for the information which the server passes 
+back to the client.  If it is the case that there is  a gateway server 
+that talks to the data servers not the client talks directly to the data 
+servers.  Why does there have to be a single gateway server.  You could 
+set it up so that the gateways only had to control the max amount of 
+connections the server can handel.  To do this you would need a another 
+server to handle incomming connections and pass them off to the gateway 
+servers.  Of course this system could bog down the intercluster network, 
+but you would think that the total amount of trafic would not change.  
+If it is the other way then this won't work. i.e. client talks directly  
+to items server.
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+Charles Dupont
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