FreeLists / openbeosnetteam / [openbeosnetteam] Re: Quiet List

["Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Evan Anderson <evan.k.anderson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 4) ZeroConf (draft rfc:draft-ietf-zeroconf-ipv4-linklocal-17)
> 
> I included the first two for completeness, but having ZeroConf 
> support
> would be very nice.  I'd prefer to see these as userspace programs to
> manage the interfaces, possibly configurable on a per-interface 
> basis.
>  So you could say something like:
> eth0: DHCP or ZeroConf
> eth1: Fixed-IP
> ppp0: DHCP

Yes, that would certainly be nice.

> But I don't think there's a need to put this into the kernel, so long
> as there is a way to register device changes to a userspace program
> (which seems like a more flexible idea to me, as well as safer than
> adding code to the kernel).

Definitely. The way I imagine it, there is a net_server running that 
does the auto-configuration and inetd services, etc. Running this would 
set up the whole networking - of course, with some useful default 
values if it hasn't been configured yet.

Bye,
   Axel.