Salut/avahi/meshview issues

[Michail Bletsas]

Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd at luon.net> wrote on 01/30/2008 06:45:48 AM:

> 
> Well both avahi and salut are quite capable. I'm not sure why it hassuch 
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.
> 
> 
Have you given any thought to the overhead (just in traffic - let's leave 
memory out of the question right now) required to do what you call "actual 
multicast routing" in the firmware? We all understand how difficult is 
what we are trying to achieve. The firmware hasn't changed much since you 
started working on this project. So, let's drop the finger pointing and 
try to come up with realistic and implementable solutions.

Yianni does testing, he doesn't care where specifically the problem is, 
all that he wants is to see something that works.

M.