[Kimchi-devel] [RFC] discover Kimchi peers

[Zhou Zheng Sheng]

on 2014/07/08 10:20, Aline Manera wrote:
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> On 07/07/2014 08:51 PM, Sheldon wrote:
>> On 07/08/2014 03:44 AM, Aline Manera wrote:
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>>> On 07/04/2014 02:24 PM, Aline Manera wrote:
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>>>> 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 :-)
> 

Took a look at SLP. It looks exactly what Kimchi needs. I makes use of
multicasting under the hood, and provide a meaningful URL scheme for the
applications.

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