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Date:      Thu, 01 Feb 2007 01:41:10 +0000
From:      Bruce M Simpson <bms@incunabulum.net>
To:        Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org>
Cc:        gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [PATCH] avahi autoipd
Message-ID:  <45C14536.2010806@incunabulum.net>
In-Reply-To: <45C14389.8080400@freebsd.org>
References:  <45C12F28.5030401@incunabulum.net> <45C14389.8080400@freebsd.org>

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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




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