March 7th, 2002
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| Novicius | | Join Date: March 7th, 2002
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 Broadcast and die!
Quote: Originally posted by Moak
How about an "auto-find" feature for servents running in a LAN?
Implementation: Each servent sends a UDP broadcast [1] on startup to the LAN (only internal LAN devices, not to the internet) and every servent
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<p>No no no no! Fine point: DO NOT USE BROADCAST! Use multicast with a TTL of 1. It should work over any normal ethernet LAN with no worse effect then a broadcast, and on a smart lan, it will avoid bugging unintrested hosts. Furthermore, on more multicast enabled networks, the TTL could be increased to span discovery outside of the local subnet. There is no reason to use plain broadcast anymore except lazyness. |
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