[JDEV] jabber users limit !!

[Dennis Noordsij]

On Tuesday 12 December 2000 17:58, Charles Forsythe wrote:
> dlb wrote:
> > someone is developing an IP multiplexer to address this area.
>
> In 30 words or less, what is an IP multiplexer (in this context)?
>
> -- Charles
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A multiplexer in this context will accept as many connections as possible, 
read from all of them until an xml packet (xmlnode) is complete and then send 
that xmlnode to jabber via a single tcp/ip connection.

In other words it multiplexes data from and to thousands of users through a 
single socket to jabber. (because the data sent are xmlnodes there are clear 
packet starts and ends and jabber has no problem demultiplexing).

Advantage is that a dedicated machine can be totally optimized for this huge 
number of connections while jabber can be optimized just for the XML routing.