[Commotion-dev] OLSRd plugin for service discovery

[Dan Staples]

On 02/11/2013 11:29 AM, Teco Boot wrote:
> Blame me for P2PD, which was cloned from mDNS. I prefer a merge of mDNS and P2PD, maybe also with BMF. Not on my priority list. 
>
> @Dan: I welcome the TTL enhancement, can it be pushed to the olsrd repository?
>
> Other topic: it would be nice if BMF had filters also (such as P2PD). BTW, I use BMF for pttdroid. Still some problems, maybe because BMF uses MPRs. I'll find out whats wrong. Needed patch on BMF for Android (tuntap control filename) is in next olsrd release.
>
> Teco 
Yeah one of the reasons I didn't use BMF was that it used MPRs, and, if
I'm not mistaken, those aren't used by OLSRd anymore? Plus the code
seemed to be much bigger and more complicated than I could wrap my head
around! But I think your wish for an integration of the existing
multicast plugins is a good idea.

I'm not sure of the procedure for pushing it to the olsrd repo, and plus
I'd like to give it some more testing to make sure I'm reconstructing
mDNS packets correctly. I'll send it out to the olsrd dev list after I'm
done that. Thanks for your work on P2PD!
>
> Op 10 feb. 2013, om 15:39 heeft L. Aaron Kaplan het volgende geschreven:
>
>> 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.
>>
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