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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Hello,<BR>
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I am very hopeful of getting libsdp working with an existing application. Specifically, I am trying to port Erlang to use SDP for it’s “distributed Erlang” mechanism. With LD_PRELOAD, this may be very easy. However, I am having trouble with one of it’s daemon processes (a port map deamon called “epmd”). Conceptually, it’s a very simple C program that runs either as a daemon or as a client that connects to the daemon to do queries. To be sure that I was getting SDP, I changed the source to use AF_INET_SDP by actually looking up that value in the include files (it was 27) and substituting that in place of AF_INET. I started the process as a daemon with debugging on and it reported as normal “listening on port...”. When I tried running it as a client, it attempted to connect to the known port on “localhost” and got a “Connection timeout” as reported by perror(2).<BR>
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Ideas?<BR>
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Cheers, Chris<BR>
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P.S. There are many users of Infiniband that would dearly love to see distributed Erlang running FAST on their systems, so this would potentially help a lot of customers! Thanks for your help.</SPAN></FONT>
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