[PATCH] avahi autoipd

[Kevin Downey]

On 1/31/07, Bruce M Simpson <bms at incunabulum.net> wrote:
> Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > Thanks for doing this, Bruce!  I'm on the road right now, but I'll
> > look at this in more detail when I get back.  Just out of curiosity,
> > are you doing this work in the hope of importing avahi into the tree
> > as our system mDNS provider?
> Nope. I just decided to try to get this out there as quickly as
> possible. I've also ported (and committed) nss-mdns.
>
> I think we should have an avahi compatible API, to be sure, but avahi is
> LGPL. I've been in contact with Fredrik Lindberg about llacd, which is
> BSD-licensed; he started out by patching kevent to notify of new/deleted
> addresses, but we decided the best way forward was to use routing sockets.
>
> So I dusted off the support code I wrote 4 years ago for native AODV on
> FreeBSD, and now Avahi's autoipd appears to work, after some hacking.
>
> His contact info is here:  fli at shapeshifter.se
> llacd here: http://shapeshifter.se/projects/freebsd/zeroconfig/
>
> PS: I have posted a kernel patch to -net to enable RFC 3927 compliant
> ARP replies in the netinet stack; infrastructure was just committed to
> sys/netinet/in.h in -CURRENT to support it.
>
> Regards,
> BMS
Thank you *so* much for nss-mdns!

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