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Rocks - Protects sockets-based applications from network failures

Rocks (Reliable Sockets) protects sockets-based applications from network failures, especially those common to mobile computing (link failures, IP address changes, and extended periods of disconnection). Rock-enabled programs keep running after these events; their broken connections recover automatically (even when one end of the connection has a new IP address), without loss of in-flight data, when connectivity returns. The program also authenticates the resumed connections. It works entirely at user level and is transparent to ordinary applications.

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.cs.wisc.edu/~zandy/rocks/
Source tarballftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/pub/paradyn/rocks/rocks-2.4.tar.gz
Version 2.4 (stable) released on 2002-09-02
Licensed under LGPL.
This is not a GNU package.

Support contacts

Help List<rocks@cs.wisc.edu> <rocks-request@cs.wisc.edu>
Developer List<rocks@cs.wisc.edu> <rocks-request@cs.wisc.edu>
Bug List<zandy@cs.wisc.edu>

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers
Sponsors
  • Paradyn Project, University of Wisconsin

Related information

Interfacescommand line, daemon
Source languagesC

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-11-06
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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