adv. network programming rpc (remote procedure call)
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Adv. Network Programming RPC (Remote Procedure Call). Kubilay Akgül. RPC (Remote Procedure Call). Two Paradigms for Distributed Programs. Smilarities and Differences Conventional Procedure Calls and RPC SUN RPC Remote Program Identification RPC Mapping, Inet.d Call Semantics RPCGEN. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Adv. Network Programming
RPC (Remote Procedure Call)
Kubilay Akgül
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RPC (Remote Procedure RPC (Remote Procedure Call)Call)
Two Paradigms for Distributed Programs. Smilarities and Differences Conventional
Procedure Calls and RPC SUN RPC Remote Program Identification RPC Mapping, Inet.d Call Semantics RPCGEN
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Two Paradigms
A programmer can use one of two approaches: Communication Oriented Design
- Focus on communication program. (Message format and syntax)
- Design client server components. (Reactions to messages)
•May miss important subtitles.
•Fundemental errors under stress.
•Few programmers have experience with protocol design
•Concentration on communication.
•Resulting programs will be difficult to understand.
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Two Paradigms
Application Oriented Design
- Focus on application.
- Design a conventional program that works correctly.
- Build, compile and test it.
- Devide the program into pieces. (Procedure level)
- Communication level and data representation is transparent.
RPC
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Conventional Programs and RPC
Smilarities
CALL Caller transfers control to called procedure. Caller suspends. Only one thread of execution continues at any given time. Values in all variables are frozen.
RESPONSE Control flows back to the caller A called procedure may call another procedure. (Server becomes a
client)
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Conventional Programs and RPC
Differences Server Procedures
- RPC procedures must exist and be waiting to compute a response. Data Flow
- RPC may accept or return arbitrary amount of data. Network Delays
- Protocol, lost packets, data representation. Adress Space
- Conventional programs can pass pointers as argument. Environment
- RPC does not have direct access to callers I/O descriptors, OS functions...
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SUN Microsystems’ RPC Definition
SUN defined specific form of RPC SUNRPC Wide acceptance, many applications. (NFS) Defines format of messages and arguments. Protocol TCP , UDP. Data Representation XDR. Uses structure instead of multiple arguments. At most one remote procedure in a remote program can be invoked at
a given time Automatic Mutual Exclusion A complier tool helps programmers to build distributed programs
automatically RPCGEN
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Remote Program and Procedure Identification
Program Number
- Each program must be assigned a unique 32 - bit integer Procedure Number
- Each procedure in a remote program must have an integer. (1,2,3...) Version number
- Multiple versions may run at the same time.
You can change details with same version number.
Easy to migrate.
(prog, ver, proc)
Program no Description
0x00000000 - 0x1fffffff defined by SUN
0x20000000 - 0x3fffffff defined by system mng.
0x40000000 - 0x5fffffff customer written appl.
0x60000000 - 0xffffffff reserved
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RPC Mapping
UDP and TCP 16 bit protocol port numbers.
RCP 32 bit program numbers. Servers uses well known ports.
RPC servers use ephemeral ports. They takes different ports after each time they restart.
Machine address + Program no ? correct server port
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PORT MAPPER, RPCBIND
Uses a database of dynamic port mapping. (TCP/UDP port = 111) Starts in multiuser mode.
• Server’s main function calls svc_create
- Determines protocols supported by clients
- Creates end-points, Binds port to TCP and UDP.
- Contacts RPCBIND and registers itself (port, prog, ver).
- Goes to sleep.• Client calls clnt_create (server_IP, prog_no, ver, protocol)
- Usually makes a UDP connection to RPCBIND on servers machine.
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PORT MAPPER, RPCBIND
Solaris % rpcinfo -p
program vers proto port service100000 4 tcp 111 rpcbind100000 3 tcp 111 rpcbind100000 2 tcp 111 rpcbind100000 4 udp 111 rpcbind100000 3 udp 111 rpcbind100000 2 udp 111 rpcbind....824377344 1 udp 42972 server824377344 1 tcp 40849 server
Uses /etc/rpc
Solaris % rpcinfo -d sprayd 1
... unregisters sprayd demon.
Solaris % pkill -HUP inetd
... inetd reads the /etc/inetd.conf file and registers sprayd again.
V2 historical (just TCP UDP)v3,4 newer protocols
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RPC - Inetd
RPCgen created servers may be invoked by inetd. /etc/inetd.conf file needs ti be updated....Rstatd/2-4 tli rpc/datagram_V wait root /usr/.../rpc.rstatd rpc.rstatd... Inetd
- creates endpoint, registers to RPCBIND.
- listens for ports, fork, exec, waits until server terminates.
Server- std. input is a xti endpoint (no need to re-register).- waits for ~2 minutes before terminate ( to prevent new fork and exec)- generates SIGCHLD to inetd.
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Call Semantics
Procedure calls can be placed into one of these categories:
1. Exactly once
2. At most once
3. At least once
4. Zero or more
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Call Semantics - Scenarios
TCPReply received: Exactly Once
No reply: At most once (server may have crashed)
UDP without server cashReply received: at least once
No reply: zero or more
UDP with server cashReply received: Exactly Once
No reply: At most once
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Stub Procedure Consept & RPCGEN
Sun RPC specifications are extensive and complicated without a software tool.
Assistance:
1. XDR library routines: internal data items XDR standard
2. RPC untime library: correctly make call, receive call, registration...
3. RPCgen: A program generater
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Stub Procedures
Additional procedures added to program to implement RPC.
Client Side Stub : They replaces the called procedure. Server Side Stub : They replaces the caller procedure.
PROC A
Client Stub
Server Stub
Proc B
Computer 1 Computer 2
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RPCGEN
Rpcgen reads an input file that contains a specification of remote program.
IT produces four output (source code) files. If specification file has name Q.x all output files will begin with Q.
- Q.h Declarations of constants and types used in the code generated for both client and server.
- Q_xdr.c XDR procedure calls used in the client and server to marshal arg.
- Q_clnt.c Client side stub procedure.
- Q_svc.c Server side stub procedure.
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RPC Example
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RPC Example
struct square_in { /* input (argument) */
long arg1;
};
struct square_out { /* output (result) */
long res1;
};
program SQUARE_PROG {
version SQUARE_VERS {
square_out SQUAREPROC(square_in) = 1; /* procedure number = 1 */
} = 1; /* version number */
} = 0x31230000; /* program number */
• Specification file
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RPC Example
#include "unpipc.h" /* our header */#include "square.h" /* generated by rpcgen */int main(int argc, char **argv){
CLIENT *cl;square_in in;square_out *outp;
if (argc != 3)err_quit("usage: client <hostname> <integer-value>");
cl = clnt_create(argv[1], SQUARE_PROG, SQUARE_VERS, "tcp");in.arg1 = atol(argv[2]);if ( (outp = squareproc_1(&in, cl)) == NULL)
err_quit("%s", clnt_sperror(cl, argv[1]));printf("result: %ld\n", outp->res1);exit(0);
}
Client.c (Client main function)
Client handle
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RPC Example
#include "unpipc.h"
#include "square.h"
square_out *
squareproc_1_svc(square_in *inp, struct svc_req *rqstp)
{
static square_out out;
out.res1 = inp->arg1 * inp->arg1;
return(&out);
}
Server Procedure
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RPC Example
Solaris % rpcgen -C square.x
Solaris % cc -c client.c -o client.o
Solaris % cc -c square_clnt.c -o square_clnt.o
Solaris % cc -c square_xdr.c -o square_xdr.o
Solaris % cc -o client client.o square_clnt.o square_xdr.o libunpipc.a -lnsl
Client executable
Server executable
Solaris % cc -c server.c -o server.o
Solaris % cc -c square_svc.c -o square.svc.o
Solaris % cc -o server server.o square_svc.o square_xdr.o libunpipc.a -lnsl
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RPC Example