[Freedombox-discuss] [Freedom Box] Finding your FB box on the network

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 04:45:09PM +0200, Christian Brædstrup wrote:
>I have never worked with Zeroconf but what if you run a DHCP server and 
>a DNS server on your network already? Can't it give some problems? I 
>also like the solution where the user doesn't have to download any 
>software to his own PC but how easy is it to setup on any network?

Zeroconf coexist nicely with DHCP.

It consists of Link-Local Multicast IP number discovery, and on top of 
that either mDNS/DNS-SD.

Microsoft use same Link-Local mechanism with UPnP on top for their 
localnet automatic service discovery.

I suggest to use both mechanisms to advertise FreedomBox on the local 
network.  And I suggest to first get Zeroconf to work, because that 
Avahi seems most easy to work with (but that's maybe because I grew up 
with more Macs than Windows machines).


  - Jonas

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