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Re: ZeroConf (Avahi, Bonjour) and the need for Multiple IPs
- From: Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn dot ch>
- To: Paul McHale <Paul dot McHale at Barco dot com>
- Cc: ecos-discuss at ecos dot sourceware dot org
- Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 21:12:54 +0100
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] ZeroConf (Avahi, Bonjour) and the need for Multiple IPs
- References: <14778328.post@talk.nabble.com>
On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 12:09:47PM -0800, Paul McHale wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> We are considering implementing ZeroConf like functionality under eCos. To
> do this, we must support participating in the ZeroConf predertimined subnet.
> This alone is simple enough provided there is support for multicasting and
> we only wanted to participate in the ZeroConf subnet.
>
> The problem we have is also participating in our customers non-ZeroConf
> subnet simultaneously. For Linux and Windows this is not a problem as more
> than one IP can be supported by a single network device. Is this possible
> in eCos? I would appreciate any recomendations regarding multiple IPs and
> multicast support.
the IP stack in eCos is from FreeBSD from maybe 5 years ago. Take a
look at how you do multiple IP addresses on an interface on an old
FreeBSD system. Probably the same is true for eCos.
Andrew
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