Nulling of destination addresses for optimized marshalling ========================================================== Version: $Id: NullDestAddresses.txt,v 1.2 2005/08/26 11:06:37 belaban Exp $ Author: Bela Ban Date: Aug 26 2005 When we marshall a message (org.jgroups.Message), we can transmit a null value for the destination, because the receiver can determine the destination: - for UDP: if received on the multicast receive socket, the destination is the multicast address (same as null) if received on the unicast receive socket, the destination is the local_addr (ourself) - for TCP: we use the MULTICAST byet sent with the message when unmarshalling the message: - if true, we leave the deatination null (= multicast destination) - if not set, we set the destination to the address passed to use from the ConnectionTable This requires that when marshalling a message, we send a multicast byte with each Message (or once for bundled msgs) based on the destination address ! Note that we *cannot* modify the destination address in the message itself, otherwise retransmissions might fail !