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Chuck Swiger wrote:
> Sam Leffler wrote:
> 
>> Andrea Campi wrote:
> 
> [ ... ]
> 
>>> And than you want howl for Zeroconf/Rendezvous... If people agreed to 
>>> have it in the base system, some scripting would tie everything together
>>> seamlessly to give the same level of functionality as Mac OS X or 
>>> better.
>>
>>
>> I can't think of anything zeroconf/rendezvous does for me that I want.
> 
> 
> I'm not surprised.  Zeroconf/Rendezvous is intended for people who don't 
> know about or manage networks.  :-)

I know what zeroconf is.  The original discussion was not (I thought) 
about setting up "zero configuration" pieces of the network.  The 
discussion was about finding AP's. neighbor nodes in an IBSS network, 
setting up WPA and 802.1x, etc.  For this zeroconf doesn't get you very far.

	Sam