Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 19:52:23 -0600 From: Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com> To: John Pettitt <jpp@cloudview.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Slightly OT - steaming data server software? Message-ID: <1211334743.1033.6.camel@t60.local.zz> In-Reply-To: <4830AE78.6000806@cloudview.com> References: <4830AE78.6000806@cloudview.com>
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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). nc -lk <port for original data> | tee /var/ais/data nc -lk <port for copy data> </var/ais/data see nc manpage for details. I may have syntax wong. This is my initial thought on how you can do this.
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