The avahi works is that every several minutes(a predetermined timeout) each host will send multicast request for all peers in its list. Then all peers receiving this request will send a multicast reply.
The packets are multicast because the mesh is mobile/dynamic so we dont know where the target is, or which is the ideal route On Feb 19, 2008 12:11 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 10:02 -0500, John Watlington wrote: > > We ALWAYS have multicast traffic. Blindly waking on each > > received multicast packet will ensure that we only sleep for > > milliseconds. > > What is all this multicast traffic? > If I am sitting idle on the network, why is there constant multicast > traffic being sent to me? > > I would expect broadcasts for activity share notifications and "Hi, I'm > new" announcements, but those should be infrequent. > > --Ben > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >
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