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--- blog:opensim:ircbridge_network [2025/05/07 15:54] – created Phil Ide
+++ blog:opensim:ircbridge_network [2025/05/08 13:40] (current) – [IRCBridgeModule Networking] Phil Ide
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 ====== IRCBridgeModule Networking ======
+[{{:blog:opensim:multisimmonitor_011.png?200 |Example application of objects in different regions communicating}}]Opensimulator has a module called IRCBridgeModule. I won't go through how to configure this module, which comes by default with OpenSimulator, I'm just going to talk about //networking// using the module. To setup the module, just peruse the wiki page: [[http://opensimulator.org/wiki/IRCBridgeModule|Opensimulator IRCBridgeModule]]. See also the [[#Gotchas| Gotchas]] below for a very specific configuration setting.
-[{{:blog:opensim:multisimmonitor_002.png?200 |Example application of objects in different regions communicating}}]Opensimulator has a module called IRCBridgeModule. I won't go through how to configure this module, which comes by default with OpenSimulator, I'm just going to talk about //networking// using the module. To setup the module, just peruse the wiki page: [[http://opensimulator.org/wiki/IRCBridgeModule|Opensimulator IRCBridgeModule]]. See also the [[#Gotchas| Gotchas]] below for a very specific configuration setting.
 The first thing you have to know about the module, is that communications using this bridge are grid agnostic - that is, it doesn't know (or care) about the grid it is on. An object on one grid can talk to an object on another grid. You have to be able to control both regions in order to configure the simulators properly, but it's possible. I have regions on OSGrid, a private grid of my own with (currently) ten regions on it, and a standalone server supporting two regions: objects can (and do) happily chat to each other across all these configurations.
-In the image at the top of this article, you can see an example of inter-region communications at work. The master - the object you see in the image - sends out a request for information from objects in other regions. Their response is the number of agents (account-based avatars) and NPCs (non-account-based avatars) in each region. It takes less than a second from sending out the request to receiving the last response. In fact, I have trouble releasing the mouse-button before all the information is returned (touch the board to send out the request). My two regions in OSGrid are not included in the results displayed because at the time of writing this article, logins to OSGrid are disabled for an extended period while they refactor the asset database, so I'm unable to place the updated scripts in those regions. However, the fact they are in another grid has no relationship with how long a response takes.
+In the image at the top of this article, you can see an example of inter-region communications at work. The master - the object you see in the image - sends out a request for information from objects in other regions. Their response is the number of agents (account-based avatars) and NPCs (non-account-based avatars) in each region. It takes less than a second from sending out the request to receiving the last response. In fact, I have trouble releasing the mouse-button before all the information is returned (touching the board sends out the request). As you can see, the list includes most of my regions in mossgrid and two from OSGrid. The fact that some regions are in another grid has no relationship with how long a response takes to arrive back to the display board.
 ===== Other Options =====
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 ==== Messaging ====
-By messaging, I mean sending postcards - note notecards, these are different. With a postcard, an avatar touches a postbox which then displays to the avatar a text box for them to fill out their message. The message is sent to the post office, which creates a notecard using the avatar name and adds the message itself to the notecard contents, along with some header information about when it was sent, which region and grid it was sent from. Each of the postboxes are then updated to display the total number of unread postcards.
+By messaging, I mean sending postcards - not notecards, these are different. With a postcard, an avatar touches a postbox which then displays to the avatar a text box for them to fill out their message. The message is sent to the post office, which creates a notecard using the avatar name and adds the message itself to the notecard contents, along with some header information about when it was sent, which region and grid it was sent from. Each of the postboxes are then updated to display the total number of unread postcards.
 Since it is only data that is transmitted, not a notecard, it can be sent from one grid to another, and the text box ensures the amount of data is limited.