Sebastien Roy wrote:
> Multicast service discovery is what makes IPv4 link-local addresses
> useful in ad-hoc networks (assuming applications know about
> one-another's services).
>
> With MacOS, for example, it's very easy to share iTunes music libraries
> between two laptops that are otherwise not part of a publicly addressed
> network. It's almost as easy to do the same with iTunes between a
> Windows machine and a MacOS machine. If such applications existed on
> Solaris, IPv4 link-local addresses would automatically have a use.
> Otherwise, their use is limited to network trouble shooting (IMO).
Thus I need IPv4 LL if I want to wire together two laptops with an
Ethernet cable.
But if I do this at hope where I have a router/NAT/DHCP box, do I need
IPv4 LL at all? Does the rest of Bonjour work with the DHCP assigned
address, or is there something which works differently in LL is used?
Erik
