Avahi optimisations

Jim Gettys jg at laptop.org
Mon Feb 25 17:51:34 EST 2008


As soon as we have a baseline measurement of packets to measure against,
I think we should remove this and the workstation record, and then
retake the measurements.
                                   - Jim

On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 16:42 -0500, Michael Stone wrote:
> >    * Minimize size of announced services (i.e. drop unnecessary data from TXT)
> >      - The biggest item in the TXT of contacts is the key (which is BIG). But
> >        this key is a requirement of bitfrost, so we can't get rid of it.
> 
> So far as I have been informed, the Bitfrost protections that would
> require key transmission have not even been planned, let alone
> implemented. Given that we think reducing mDNS bandwidth usage is a good
> idea, does anyone see a real problem with dropping these keys until that
> basic design work has been completed?
> 
> Michael
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