On 2011-04-20, Roy Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>,
> Grant Edwards <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> 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 considered what will happen if you have, say, 1000 such
> devices, and they all respond at the same time?
Yes. Firstly, there will very rarely be more than a handful of such
devices. Secondly, I plan on inserting a small, psuedo-random delay
before replying. Thirdly, the management program typically repeats
the discovery process a few times in case any packets get dropped.
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