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Re: [PROJECT] Project core


  • To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
  • Subject: Re: [PROJECT] Project core
  • From: patrickl@xxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 09:18:50 -0000
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--- In ukha_d@y..., "Broadfoot, Kieran J"
<Kieran.Broadfoot@g...>
wrote:
> My thinking is that a device would power up and request an IP
address.
> Every ten/fifteen seconds the console sends a discovery packet to
the
> network.  Any new device can respond to this with details regarding
its
> type/operation etc.  The console keeps track of this new device and
can then
> compare this to the user defined functionality of said devices.  If
matches
> the console then starts to operate the device as described by the
user.

Surely this can happen at device powerup, there's no need to wait 15
mins for discovery to occur.
Discovery should have two modes: ad-hoc, on startup broadcast a
definition, and polled - allowing a new managment console to quickly
discover all available devices on the network(s).
The latter will probably need some kind of crude collision
avoidance/arbitration depending on the network medium.

Patrick




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