Course Description Text (required) TCP/IP Protocol Suite, 2nd edition, Behrouz A. Forouzan. Mc Graw-Hill 2003. · Supplementary Texts Internetworking with TCP/IP, Volume 3: Client-Server Programming and Application, Linux-POSIX Sockets Version
Consolidating Servers Same motivations for multiprotocol servers Higher risk to use a single, multiservice server, why? Consolidating many services into a single server process reduces the number of executing processes dramatically The total code required
Introduction Continues the discussion of middleware (i.e., tools and libraries programmers used to construct client-server software) Y Introduces the remote procedure call (RPC) concept, and describes a particular implementation of an rpc that uses XDr standard for data representation