If this is all going over an L2 LAN, why not do the initial discovery and general configuration exchange over IPv6? :P Link layer network-scope addresses to the rescue.
(think: just like apple wireless base stations and MacOSX hosts doing configuration do..) Adrian 2009/1/8 Peter Steele <pste...@maxiscale.com>: >> Thanks for the suggestion though. I'm not familiar with ZeroConf; I'll >> check it out. > > ZeroConf is an interesting concept. Unfortunately it restricts IPs to > the 169.254/16 range and it is very likely some of our customers will > want to be able to configure our boxes to an IP range of their own > choosing. That's the biggest concern we have with this facility. It's > definitely attractive, but I don't think we can use unfortunately. > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
