Remote Inter-Process Communication

Remote IPC is based on Solaris UDP sockets which are used for sending, reading, and listening to IPC messages. Each simulator uses a single UDP socket to communicate with other simulators. The port number of this socket is specified in the site_number.conf file. Broadcasting is achieved by sending IPC messages to each simulator in this file.

Figure 1-2 illustrates the remote IPC mechanism.

Figure 1-2 Remote IPC Mechanism