13 Jan
2012
13 Jan
'12
9:37 a.m.
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Gordon Messmer yinyang@eburg.com wrote:
As far as I can see, it is some sort of rival to dhcpd.
No, DHCP is used to assign network addresses and routes (and other optional configuration items).
There is a larger 'zeroconf' context where if the request to a DHCP server times out, a node can assign itself something in the 169.254.0.0/16 range. Then:
mDNS is used to discover services using IP multicast.
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Les Mikesell
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