New IPC channel in remoting

Remoting in v2.0 of the framework is introducing a new IPC Channel meant for x-proc communication on the same machine. It is based on named pipes and works on win2k based platforms (win2k, winxp, win2k3). It will provide better performance characteristics than the current TCP channel. It will also provide a way to control access to the underlying pipe, so that the server can limit the access to a specific group. As with the TCP channel it also supports authentication and impersonation of client identities.

Beta 1 build of the framework already has the IPC implementation. Beta 2 might have some changes mainly in performance and security. Switching from TCP / HTTP to IPC on the same machine should be trivial. If anyone has tried it so far and have any feedback, please send it our way.