Re: [Kimchi-devel] [RFC] discover Kimchi peers

On 07/07/2014 08:51 PM, Sheldon wrote: > On 07/08/2014 03:44 AM, Aline Manera wrote: >> >> >> On 07/04/2014 02:24 PM, Aline Manera wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 07/03/2014 12:03 PM, Sheldon wrote: >>>> On 06/05/2014 08:53 PM, Aline Manera wrote: >>>>> On 04/17/2014 10:38 AM, Sheldon wrote: >>>>>> I'd like to talk about how to discover Kimchi peers. >>>>>> >>>>>> Now I just talk about discover a peer in a same network here. >>>>>> >>>>>> I will use a local multicast subnetwork address >>>>>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicast_address#Local_subnetwork> to >>>>>> find peers in one network. >>>>>> Choose 224.0.0.132 as the kimchi multicast address, and 8000 as the >>>>>> port. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> How will you choose the multicast address? >>>>> >>>>> You can not assume all Kimchi servers is running in the default port >>>>> 8000 >>>>> The user can change it. >>>>> >>>>> In my mind I think we should send a broadcast message in the network >>>>> and wait for the responses. >>>>> And we need to add a hook in Kimchi to respond to those messages with >>>>> the IP and port number Kimchi is running. >>>> >>>> zhengsheng suggested *upnp-inspector. * >>>> looking into *upnp-inspector >>>> >>> >>> What about openSLP? Seems it is simple to use. >>> We just need to register kimchi server on startup and unregister on >>> shutdown >>> >>> http://www.openslp.org/doc/html/IntroductionToSLP/index.html >>> http://www.openslp.org/doc/html/UsersGuide/SlpReg.html >> >> I've just tested openSLP and it works pretty well and attends Kimchi >> needs. >> I will send a RFC patch soon. > Thanks. > Simon Jin is working on this feature. > The openSLP patches are almost done! Simon Jin can work in other task as we have a lot to do for Kimchi 1.3 :-)