On 11/27/2013 12:03 PM, Michael Haberler wrote: > I consider using zbeacon for service discovery, but more in a DHCP-style way > (I dont have the use case for permanently visible beacons since the > information is used during startup/on demand only) > > an application looking for services would broadcast (a) request(s) for the > services needed, and entities with matching services would reply with an > answer directed to the source IP address (i.e. non-broadcast); repeat until > all needed services acquired. > > IMV the only missing part in zbeacon to achieve this would be a directed > counterpart of zbeacon_publish(), with a signature like so: > > void zbeacon_send (zbeacon_t *self, char *ipaddress, byte *transmit, > size_t size) > > which would transmit a directed UDP reply once. > > -- > > If there's interest in such a feature I'd add support for this in czmq and > issue a PR > > - Michael
In Zyre zbeacon is broadcasting continuously, would the nodes be replying continuously as well? Otherwise you would need to do some tracking of nodes inside zbeacon? Rg, Arnaud -- w: http://www.sphaero.org t: http://twitter.com/sphaero g: http://github.com/sphaero i: freenode: sphaero_z25 _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
