Network Parameter

Every network transport object communicates with other transport objects over a network. On computers with only one network interface, the Rendezvous daemon communicates on that network without further instruction from the program.

On computers with more than one network interface, the network parameter instructs the Rendezvous daemon to use a particular network for all communications involving this transport. To communicate over more than one network, a program must create a separate transport object for each network.

The network parameter also specifies multicast addressing details (for a brief introduction, see Multicast Addressing).

To connect to a remote daemon, the network parameter must refer to the network from the perspective of the remote computer that hosts the daemon process.