On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 8:10 AM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@laptop.org wrote:
IEEE chose to make wi-fi networks look like 802.11 LANs, similar to
ethernet. It might have been a bad idea in retrospect, but now we
have to live with it.
AFAIK, the bulk of the problem with multicasts over 802.11s
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@laptop.org wrote:
Morgan Collett wrote:
Also don't blame avahi for the fact that we send out updates every
time you alt-tab between shared activities, so that your icon can jump
to the appropriate snowflake on everyone else's Neighborhood
C. Scott Ananian wrote:
This is irrelevant, really. Protocols are designed with certain
assumptions. Those assumptions (mostly having to do with the behavior
and cost of broadcasts) were true when the protocols were designed,
and are no longer true today. This is the way of all software,
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@laptop.org wrote:
C. Scott Ananian wrote:
This is irrelevant, really. Protocols are designed with certain
assumptions. Those assumptions (mostly having to do with the behavior
and cost of broadcasts) were true when the protocols were
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 14:18, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote:
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 5:13 AM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@laptop.org wrote:
Martin Langhoff wrote:
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 6:39 PM, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote:
My suggestions: DNS-SD and libepc
Martin Langhoff wrote:
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 6:39 PM, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote:
My suggestions: DNS-SD and libepc (http://live.gnome.org/libepc/).
There's no need for Sugar-specific solutions here; we just need to use
existing standard solutions.
Yep - I want existing
Morgan Collett wrote:
Also don't blame avahi for the fact that we send out updates every
time you alt-tab between shared activities, so that your icon can jump
to the appropriate snowflake on everyone else's Neighborhood Views...
as well as sending who joined and left...
Mature GUIs have a
C. Scott Ananian wrote:
When I read the Zeroconf book, I got the impression that the
_standard_ was carefully designed to minimize needless broadcasts and
scale well in real scenarios. I can't comment on the current Avahi
_implementation_ though.
This is true for wired networks; not
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 5:13 AM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@laptop.org wrote:
Martin Langhoff wrote:
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 6:39 PM, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote:
My suggestions: DNS-SD and libepc (http://live.gnome.org/libepc/).
There's no need for Sugar-specific solutions here; we
