Re: Zeroconf Debian?
On Friday August 8 2003 02:01 am, Oliver Kurth wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 01:28:15PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> > I'm currently at the SAGE-AU annual conference, and Apple presented a
> > paper about their Rendezvous technology, which is their implementation of
> > Zeroconf[1].
> >
> > Is anyone working on getting Debian to do any of this sort of stuff? If
> > not, I might look into spinning off a subproject. I don't think it would
> > be significantly difficult to get parts of this working relatively
> > quickly. Minor changes to ifupdown would allow for allocating an IP
> > address without a HCP server, for example.
> >
> > [1] http://www.zeroconf.org
>
> Almost certainly you can make use of ifplugd for this:
>
> Description: A configuration daemon for ethernet devices
> ifplugd is a daemon which will automatically configure your
> ethernet device when a cable is plugged in and automatically
> unconfigure it if the cable is pulled. This is useful on laptops with
> onboard network adapters, since it will only configure the interface
> when a cable is really connected.
>
I was under the impression that ifplugd only runs 'ifup ethX' and 'ifdown
ethX' when a cable is plugged into or removed from ethX.
Does it autoconfigure (or at least discover) network printers, NFS exports,
CIFS shares and so on?
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