[Commotion-dev] OLSRd plugin for service discovery

[L. Aaron Kaplan]

On Feb 10, 2013, at 3:32 PM, Dan Staples <danstaples at opentechinstitute.org> wrote:

> Yes, I am aware of the BMF and mDNS plugins. The P2PD plugin which I
> based my plugin on was actually based on the mDNS plugin, but with some
> optimization and added configuration options. Mine then further refines
> it with custom TTL values for local service advertisements. It does this
> by stripping resource record entries out of mDNS packets sent to the
> mesh and re-encapsulating them in new packets with TTL values
> corresponding to the TTL values set by the local services.
> 
> So in that way, it's kind of a lineage from the mDNS plugin...  And BMF
> just seemed to fit my purposes less than the P2PD plugin.
> 

I see! Thanks for the clarification.