using multiple io_service objects

Question

I have my application in which listen and process messages from both internet sockets and unix domain sockets. Now I need to add SSL to the internet sockets, I was using a singl

Answer 1

Looks like you are writing a server and not a client. Don't know if this helps, but I am using ASIO to communicate with 6 servers from my client. It uses TCP/IP SSL/TSL. You can find a link to the code here

You should be able to use just one io_service object with multiple socket objects. But, if you decide that you really want to have multiple io_service objects, then it should be fairly easy to do so. In my class, the io_service object is static. So, just remove the static keyword along with the logic in the constructor that only creates one instance of the io_service object. Depending on the number of connections expected for your server, you would probably be better off using a thread pool dedicated to handling socket I/O rather than creating a thread for each new socket connection.