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Re: [ldm-users] Use of PRIMARY and ALTERNATE tags (was Re: Double level 2 feed again...)

On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 09:50 -0600, Steven Emmerson wrote:

> Bret,
> 
> > Could the problem be the duplicate feed requests?  I thought that all 
> > feed requests had to be unique, unless we have the PRIMARY or 
> > ALTERNATE tags on the request line...
> 
> Beginning with version 6.4.0 of the LDM, the PRIMARY and ALTERNATE tags 
> may be omitted from the LDM configuration-file.  Given multiple REQUEST 
> entries with identical feedtypes and product-patterns, the first entry 
> will start a downstream LDM in PRIMARY mode and the other entries will 
> start downstream LDMs in ALTERNATE mode.  After one minute, the modes of 
> the downstream LDMs will switch as necessary to maximize reception.


Thanks for the enlightenment, Steve.  I missed this info somewhere along
the way.

Bret
 
 
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