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Roy Marples wrote: |
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> On Thursday 28 February 2008 18:23:21 Peter Stuge wrote: |
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>> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 11:54:23AM -0500, wireless wrote: |
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>>> it runs some tests and figures out how to auto configure the ip, |
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>>> dns resolver(mDNS) and possible default routing to the internet |
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>> Will avahi replace DHCP like that? |
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> No. |
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> Instead DHCP clients should provide a zeroconf solution. |
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> dhcpcd-3.1 [1] and higher do and works fine in an embedded environment. It's a |
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> little more bloaty than udhcpc, but it's also a lot more feature rich. |
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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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curiously, |
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James |
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