On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 06:07 -0400, Sherm Pendley wrote: > Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> writes: > > I'm trying to implement a device discovery/configuration protocol that > > uses UDP broadcast packets to discover specific types of devices on > > the local Ethernet segment. The management program broadcasts a > > discovery command to a particular UDP port. All devices who get that > > packet are expected to answer regardless of thier current IP address. > Have you looked at the source for Apple's Bonjour?
On LINUX this is called "avahi", which has Python bindings. Avahi auto-configuration / discovery works very well. <http://avahi.org/> <http://freshmeat.net/projects/avahi> <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pybonjour/1.1.1> <http://avahi.org/wiki/PythonBrowseExample> See also: <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pybonjour/1.1.1> at least you may be able to lift code from them (License is non-viral MIT) > Might be interesting to see how it does announcement/discovery. Or maybe > just use it directly, if this happens to be a case of "gee, I didn't > know that wheel had already been invented." :-) -- Adam Tauno Williams <awill...@whitemice.org> LPIC-1, Novell CLA <http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com> OpenGroupware, Cyrus IMAPd, Postfix, OpenLDAP, Samba -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
