On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Patrick Noffke <[email protected]> wrote:
> We are trying to use zbeacon as well. I am curious, why use UDP > broadcast instead of multicast? On IPv4, the two work more or less the same. When we developed this, we of course used UDP multicast. This works, of course. But we found that the Android WiFi stack (our target at the time) does not handle multicast properly. Specifically, it discards multicast packets when acting as an access point. Whereas, broadcast works as expected. That's the only reason, and IMO there were other plausible workarounds (primarily, if a node received a broadcast it would connect back over TCP, and if a node received a TCP connection and no broadcast, it would also connect out over TCP), and Zyre does implement that, but I've not retested that case. It's quite likely that switching to multicast will work perfectly and if you want to make that patch, I'll merge it happily. We would have to issue a new version of the ZRE protocol, http://rfc.zeromq.org/spec:20, (which depends on zbeacon) and possibly think about backwards compatibility, though I don't know of any real zbeacon deployments yet. It would certainly be doable to configure a zbeacon class to use either multicast or broadcast before starting to publish, and to listen to both broadcast and multicast in any case. -Pieter _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
