mechanisms tied to mesh: "under a tree" collab

[pgf at laptop.org]

benjamin m. schwartz wrote:
 > 
 > The wired-ethernet case is already working, and has been for a year or
 > more.  Drop Sugar onto two Thinkpads connected to the same subnet, and
 > they will instantly find each other over Avahi, etc.  If it's a wireless
 > network, or if you have XOs with ethernet dongles, they'll also see any
 > XO's that are also connected to that AP.  (Actually, Sugar will also find
 > any nearby Macs running Avahi, but doesn't quite know what to do with them.)

i need to point out that ethernet dongles don't seem to play at
all well with suspend/resume, so the scenarios that you describe
may have worked well in the past, and may work well on first
boot, or first device insertion, but will stop working
immediately if you close/open your lid, or otherwise suspend.  :-/

paul
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 paul fox, pgf at laptop.org