On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 12:18 -0600, Charles Durrett wrote:
> 
> On Jan 9, 2008 11:21 AM, Michail Bletsas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>         ...
>  
>         The largest issue is how wrong, ugly and painful is to use
>         DHCP on a mesh 
>         network.
>         Because of RADV, IPv6 doesn't have that issue. The original
>         mesh portal
>         discovery method was
>         proprietory but also extremely lightweight and did what it was
>         supposed to
>         do with minimal code.
>         
>         ...
> 
> I'm late to the party.   How/who was it proprietary?

The original method used UDP packets with a custom format.  I wouldn't
say "proprietary" so much as "non-standard" since the code that created
the UDP packets was open for all to see.

Dan


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