[PLUG] Command Line Switches from Web Page?

[Larry Brigman]

On 6/7/05, D. Cooper Stevenson <cstevens at gencom.us> wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 21:09 -0700, AthlonRob wrote:
> 
> > Kenneth G. Stephens wrote:
> > I think Cooper is looking to run code on the client machines, not the
> > servers... if I'm not mistaken.
> 
> 
> Right. The challenge is that the application I wish to run uses a
> peer-to-peer networking paradigm, not client/server. That means that I
> have to find a way to join multiple remote computers together from a
> central location.
> 
> Think of it like an old switchboard, who's operator receives an incoming
> connection, asks for the connection type (destination IP, port number,
> etc. to mix the metaphor), and then rings the opposite end.
> 
> In this case, the "ringing" is starting a client on each end via an RPC
> call to the remote computers; one will have the --host switch while the
> other gets the --join switch.
> 
> After the central server has sent the RPC calls to the remote machines,
> it's out of the loop-the two peers now communicate directly.
> 

Then something like the method that the voip people are doing should work
for you.