Re: looking for open tasks

Quoting Axel Dörfler <[email protected]>:

> "François Revol" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > > * implement ZeroConf and/or Bonjour networking services
> > > > i personally very much like this one, but it wouldn't qualify
> > > > for our assignment :e(
> > > Pity :-)
> > I ported Howl to BONE some time ago, but it just doesn't work for
> > lack
> > of multicast support. It would be a good starting point though.
>
> I never heard of Howl, have you any quick reference link?

Howl was an open-source implementation of ZeroConf/Bonjour.
And it's dead:

http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/

Best options todays are either porting Apple's Bonjour source (which is licensed
under Apache v2 license):

http://developer.apple.com/networking/bonjour/index.html

Or porting another ones, like Linux's Avahi (www.avahi.org) or an older
Howl-based implementation, mmu_man's one coming to mind, or BSD's one.

Anyway, not all ZeroConf features actually needs a working multicast support.
The automatic IP address configuration only needs ARP queries for example to
achieve dynamic configuration of IPv4 local addresses. Could be a good starting
point for example. For the ZeroConf server-less discovery features, multicast
support is mandatory, though.

- Philippe Houdoin

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