Naming procedures, continued
Naming procedures, continued
- Network naming issues:
- which machine to look on?
- server hostname passed to RPC layer
- how to reference the procedure?
- RPC servers provide programs, each of which has a unique number assigned by Sun (similar to ethernet addresses)
- each program also has a version number
- Within each program are procedures, referenced by numbers assigned by the program’s author
- procedure 0 is reserved for “ping”
- sort of a “host-to-network-symbol-table” approach