Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 10:06:09 +0100 From: Andrea Campi <andrea+freebsd_net@webcom.it> To: Peter Heerboth <pheerboth@apple.com> Cc: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Working on howl port Message-ID: <20041213090609.GA30379@webcom.it> In-Reply-To: <1B251E0B-4C95-11D9-A057-000393CFACB0@apple.com> References: <20041211090235.GD11190@webcom.it> <41BAC0BD.7000706@mac.com> <20041211102825.GB12803@webcom.it> <41BB40B7.5000907@mac.com> <1B251E0B-4C95-11D9-A057-000393CFACB0@apple.com>
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On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 03:25:27PM -0800, Peter Heerboth wrote: > I'm not a zeroconf expert per se, but I would love to see FreeBSD have > a great zeroconf implementation. Here are some things to think about. > > > > >If your first implementation happens to leave the interface with a > >169.254 IP address, it's doing something it shouldn't, however that is > >likely to be mostly harmless until you or someone has a chance to > >improve the implementation. > > If a device does keep its link local address once it obtains a lease > from a DHCP server or the user manually enters an address, it is > important that it stops responding to A record queries with its > 169.254/16 address. Depending upon the IP implementations of the other Sure, I'll make sure this is going to work fine. But I need some time before I can really work on mDNS ;-) > Also, how is Freebsd going to handle IPv4 link local addresses on > multi-homed hosts? Does FreeBSD have a notion of a "primary" interface > like Mac OS X? If FreeBSD assigns v4 link-local address to all its > interfaces, then the link-local address for each device on each network > to which my FreeBSD device is attached must be unique across all > networks, or the routing implications are obvious. I'd like to live complications such as this for a later stage. I'd say if you have a multihomed machine you better know how to configure it; the primary target for my work are laptops and other clients. That is not to say I don't care; rather, I need to limit how much I chew at a time. For now I only work on one interface. Bye, Andrea -- Actually, Microsoft is sort of a mixture between the Borg and the Ferengi.
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