The documentation does mention using a "hub and spoke" federation topology [1]. However, as you noted, there's no example configuration. I wonder if this may be down to the "max-hops" setting you're using.
Can you provide the broker.xml from your brokers attempting to use hub & spoke? Justin [1] https://activemq.apache.org/components/artemis/documentation/latest/federation-address.html#configuring-downstream-federation On Wed, Feb 7, 2024 at 6:23 AM Devriendt, Erik <erik.devrie...@siemens.com.invalid> wrote: > I tried to set up a small Hub-Spoke topology of 3 Artemis brokers. Each on > a different machine, and expected to be able to configure address > federation. > I have 3 brokers: A, B and C. If I configure them in a full mesh topology, > address federation works, that is, a consumer on any of the broker machines > receives messages from any producer on any of the broker machines. > However, if I configure them as A – B – C, where A-B and B-C have > symmetrical connections, a consumer on A does not receive messages from a > producer on C. > The topic on which producer and consumer work, is created dynamically (so > not in the broker.xml files) by the consumer or producer. > > The examples of the Artemis software only contains examples of full mesh > federations. Are there any examples available on the internet of a > federation with hub-spoke topology? > Or is it not possible to use a hup-spoke topology for federation? >
