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On Friday 29 February 2008 17:33:29 wireless wrote: |
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> Maybe: |
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> Maybe not avahi in it's current form, but certainly there is the |
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> possibility that zeroconf + dns-sd + (new code) could be made to |
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> auto-configure the ethernet and routing for an embedded board. |
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> If you disagree, please provide me some factual reasons as to why |
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> zeroconf plus dns-sd cannot be extended to perform auto-configuration? |
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Eh, I never said that avahi couldn't be extended. |
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I just said that it won't replace dhcp clients as such. It makes much more |
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sense for existing dhcp clients to support zeroconf rather than avahi |
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zeroconf supporting dhcp. |
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dhcpcd is currently the only open source DHCP client that supports zeroconf |
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out of the box. |
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Thanks |
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Roy |
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