suggestions ?

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

Saber ZRELLI wrote:
> 
> Erich Dollansky wrote:
> 
> if my browser is connected to google and yahoo , then i need to
> distinguish what data is coming from whish server , so it can be treated
> correctly ...
> 
It will not work for google or yahoo how they work currently.

> I think i'm missing something ...
> 
Yes.

As simple example is a government site handling some government task 
like duty collection or purchase orders for the whole country.

There is one system which does it all for the government. The impact of 
a system like this going down will be massive. But we learned since the 
WTC attack that it can happen.

The solution is currently to have fault-tolerant machines on single 
sites with a very low chance to fail plus some spare sites to take over 
if the main site really fails. The switch over takes some time and will 
make the government lose money as the whole country cannot process the 
data during this period of time.

If the clients are now linked via an additional layer in the TCP/IP 
stack to all sites and it is made sure that all sites are updated 
concurrently, it will not matter if a site goes down because the other 
sites will take over automatically

On the other side, after having a system like this, there is no need 
anymore for fault-tolerant hardware on the individual sites as the 
switch-over to the other sites is done automatically from outside. As a 
result the cost of such systems will drop.

I know that such systems exist but they are tailor made and they are not 
off-the-shelve solution integrated somewhere into the operating system.

Erich