Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 11:55:03 -0800 From: "Kevin Downey" <redchin@gmail.com> To: "Bruce M Simpson" <bms@incunabulum.net> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] avahi autoipd Message-ID: <1d3ed48c0702011155n2fa1f583v995a1abc6973e778@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <45C14536.2010806@incunabulum.net> References: <45C12F28.5030401@incunabulum.net> <45C14389.8080400@freebsd.org> <45C14536.2010806@incunabulum.net>
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On 1/31/07, Bruce M Simpson <bms@incunabulum.net> wrote: > Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > Thanks for doing this, Bruce! I'm on the road right now, but I'll > > look at this in more detail when I get back. Just out of curiosity, > > are you doing this work in the hope of importing avahi into the tree > > as our system mDNS provider? > Nope. I just decided to try to get this out there as quickly as > possible. I've also ported (and committed) nss-mdns. > > I think we should have an avahi compatible API, to be sure, but avahi is > LGPL. I've been in contact with Fredrik Lindberg about llacd, which is > BSD-licensed; he started out by patching kevent to notify of new/deleted > addresses, but we decided the best way forward was to use routing sockets. > > So I dusted off the support code I wrote 4 years ago for native AODV on > FreeBSD, and now Avahi's autoipd appears to work, after some hacking. > > His contact info is here: fli@shapeshifter.se > llacd here: http://shapeshifter.se/projects/freebsd/zeroconfig/ > > PS: I have posted a kernel patch to -net to enable RFC 3927 compliant > ARP replies in the netinet stack; infrastructure was just committed to > sys/netinet/in.h in -CURRENT to support it. > > Regards, > BMS Thank you *so* much for nss-mdns! -- The biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has occurred.
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