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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 09:29:57 -0000
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--- In ukha_d@y..., Stuart Grimshaw <stuart@s...> wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 May 2001 10:18 am, you wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Couldn't both be done with network broadcasts to the appropriate
subnet? The
> device could announce it's presence in this way, and also the mc's
could
> request presence verification using the same method.
It would nice to have a protocol/mechanism which could be used on say
serial networks as well as ethernet with a minimum of conversion.
Maybe that's a bit too ambitious...
Patrick
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