Salut/avahi/meshview issues

Ricardo Carrano carrano at ricardocarrano.com
Wed Jan 30 07:37:24 EST 2008


Sjoerd,

Could you please develop this? What do you mean by "wireless firmware not
being
good enough to do actual multicast routing."?

Thanks,
Ricardo Carrano

Well both avahi and salut are quite capable. I'm not sure why it has such a
> bad
> reputation with you. Probably because your only seeing it in a very very
> exterme network and because there seems to be a lot of FUD about mdns
> going
> around. MDNS definately isn't an optimal protocol for a mesh, but most of
> the
> issues in big rollouts are actually caused by the wireless firmware not
> being
> good enough to do actual multicast routing.
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