Avahi optimisations

[Jim Gettys]

On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 19:28 +0100, Sjoerd Simons wrote:

> > 
> > I also note we do nothing regarding suspend/resume and adjusting
> > timeouts properly, per the mdns spec.  Do you have a feel for what the
> > effect of implementing that there would be?
> 
> Which potentially changes are you specifically referring to here ? I'm not
> really aware of potential changes in this respect that could help a lot with
> the traffic.

Search for "sleep" in draft-cheshire-ext-multicastdns.txt.  My memory is
that Lennart said there wasn't anything implemented in Avahi for these
cases.

Rather than "improvements", I'm worried that frequent suspend/resumes
may be generating unneeded traffic.
                               - Jim

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