Slightly OT - steaming data server software?
Bob McConnell
rvm at CBORD.com
Wed May 21 12:26:47 UTC 2008
On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 15:32 -0700, John Pettitt wrote:
>
>
> Slightly OT but since I'm going to run this on FreeBSD 7 I figured I'd
> ask here ..
>
> I have an application where data arrives in what is effectively
> continuous stream (actually NMEA messages from an AIS receiver) and
I'd
> like to have a server where an arbitrary number of clients can connect
> to a tcp port and receive a copy of the stream. I could probably
> write this in perl without too much work but somebody has to have done
> something similar already - does anybody know of code that does this?
> (and yes I know sending the messages as individual udp packets would
be
> easier - I'm already doing that internally but it doesn't work for
> opening up the data stream to the public).
Already been done. See <http://sourceforge.net/projects/aprsd/>
Bob McConnell
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