On Oct 6, 2016 3:02 PM, "Gregg Reynolds" <dev at mobileink.com> wrote:
>
> On Oct 6, 2016 2:31 PM, "Dave Thaler via iotivity-dev" <
iotivity-dev at lists.iotivity.org> wrote:
> >
> > Actually given the name of it, the best answer would be ?1? since
there?s just one interface, with multiple CAEndpoint_t?s on it.
> >
> > But that doesn?t appear to be what the code is doing and I?m not sure
why.
> >
> >
> >
> > I can?t actually think of a reason to have more than 2 (one for IPv4,
one for IPv6) since that?s how many discovery requests you need to send,
> > so I?m not sure why there?s an addr field in the structure at all. Can
someone explain?
> >
> not me, I'm afraid, but I recently discovered that clients start a
"discovery service" while servers start both that and a "listener
service". I assume the former services only discovery requests and
theclatter, only (unicast) CRUDN requests, but that's just a guess. would
that explain the need for two on each IP version?
>
PS. in case it isn't obvious I am not Mr. Networking Expert. any help
understanding this stuff appreciated.
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