From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 8 22:11:40 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BCF9106566B for ; Thu, 8 Jan 2009 22:11:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gx0-f11.google.com (mail-gx0-f11.google.com [209.85.217.11]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD7D38FC12 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 2009 22:11:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: by gxk4 with SMTP id 4so1085822gxk.19 for ; Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:11:39 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender :to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references :x-google-sender-auth; bh=9Eb7lSTKnvDFxGYKBSz+7FKNrq86258k2eOyljWdK3o=; b=XzBpv1A7D/L7AWFj+nerQvZUabP9EIghR8iFbOTZ/WDxzp7/PGWxQjtw1xOJpph4e3 /8YIQNw3/E4nxOwz5FJU5st8vFQmcwALq7sDxU5fNiEyncgcTKjJ1lWO9vqaR4uoedbo 9vqXyPfi/7aQJKndVm/tIv6KijqrMva5siXEE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references:x-google-sender-auth; b=ch7o0wPsuOefkPHVu1lz0e1p+LWBNH0Q6+/y0WuvJayc3ooDxtr8VEOudIRuZiSvFx O8XttVQhm2Sr3isEpLgSnyuXPUsH5qQ5o/GS7eAO9xhEqiIIxiwUvwAGv9hr/ffhaau5 YEhc4Xju+WvvPT4ydmCU+9YJQM1JeUHNVm4Uk= Received: by 10.150.145.20 with SMTP id s20mr2767870ybd.97.1231452699214; Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:11:39 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.151.135.13 with HTTP; Thu, 8 Jan 2009 14:11:39 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 17:11:39 -0500 From: "Adrian Chadd" Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com To: "Peter Steele" In-Reply-To: <2ACA3DE8F9758A48B8BE2C7A847F91F2479FCE@polaris.maxiscale.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <2ACA3DE8F9758A48B8BE2C7A847F91F2479DF2@polaris.maxiscale.com> <28b9b4180901070039x27a25bb4m6b50c8bfae63e0af@mail.gmail.com> <2ACA3DE8F9758A48B8BE2C7A847F91F2479E9A@polaris.maxiscale.com> <4964CA2E.5090708@wezel.com> <2ACA3DE8F9758A48B8BE2C7A847F91F2479FB0@polaris.maxiscale.com> <2ACA3DE8F9758A48B8BE2C7A847F91F2479FCE@polaris.maxiscale.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 74e25c22d68714bb Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Having problems with limited broadcast X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:11:40 -0000 If this is all going over an L2 LAN, why not do the initial discovery and general configuration exchange over IPv6? :P Link layer network-scope addresses to the rescue. (think: just like apple wireless base stations and MacOSX hosts doing configuration do..) Adrian 2009/1/8 Peter Steele : >> Thanks for the suggestion though. I'm not familiar with ZeroConf; I'll >> check it out. > > ZeroConf is an interesting concept. Unfortunately it restricts IPs to > the 169.254/16 range and it is very likely some of our customers will > want to be able to configure our boxes to an IP range of their own > choosing. That's the biggest concern we have with this facility. It's > definitely attractive, but I don't think we can use unfortunately. > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >