Suggestions for general networking solution on WAN and LAN
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Hi. I am about to program a piece of software which contains a single server, and about 20-40 clients. All parts can be spread out on a lan, or on a wan. The server shall be able to broadcast/multicast to the clients in some way, and the clients should be able to fetch information from the server. There are about 30 kinds of information which has to be fetched/broadcasted. Question is, how to solve this general problem in the most elegant way? I would be happy if i could avoid switches in the client/server end to check what kind of information i received, or make my own kind of application layer protocol to check it. I had a look at remoting, like RMI in java, but that seems to be a very bad idea over WAN because of firewalls and such. Do you have any insight in possible solutions for this? Thanks alot :)
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Hi. I am about to program a piece of software which contains a single server, and about 20-40 clients. All parts can be spread out on a lan, or on a wan. The server shall be able to broadcast/multicast to the clients in some way, and the clients should be able to fetch information from the server. There are about 30 kinds of information which has to be fetched/broadcasted. Question is, how to solve this general problem in the most elegant way? I would be happy if i could avoid switches in the client/server end to check what kind of information i received, or make my own kind of application layer protocol to check it. I had a look at remoting, like RMI in java, but that seems to be a very bad idea over WAN because of firewalls and such. Do you have any insight in possible solutions for this? Thanks alot :)
If you have to communicate through WAN, your best option is using Windows Communication Foundation, using one of the HTTP bindings.