[rabbitmq-discuss] Symmetric federation behavior

Thu Mar 1 13:55:10 GMT 2012

Yeah, I'm afraid that's the case. The existing design puts all the 
smarts in the downstream; therefore the message can only be thrown away 
once it's already gone over the gap.

We will revisit this at some point.

Cheers, Simon

On 01/03/12 13:27, Busoli, Simone wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I’ve set up a symmetric federation between two brokers A and B, that is,
> an exchange on one broker acts as the upstream for one on the other
> broker with the same name and vice versa.
>
> To prevent messages from going into an infinite loop I’ve set max_hops
> to 1, but I am under the impression that messages published to broker A
> and then proxied to broker B are somehow proxied back once again to
> broker A and just then ignored because of the max_hops setting.
>
> Is this behavior expected? Our rationale for using this kind of
> symmetrically configured federation is twofold: first to prevent
> messages to go into loops and secondly to conserve bandwidth by
> preventing messages to roundtrip from A to B and back, and this second
> aspect doesn’t seem to work correctly right now.
>
> Thanks
>
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Simon MacMullen
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