Hello.
On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 18:26:59 -0400
fche(a)redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler) wrote:
Russell Doty <rdoty(a)redhat.com> writes:
>> Also, have you considered Avahi / zeroconf?
> What are the advantages of using Avahi or zeroconf over SLP
More widespread adoption, inclusion in base RHEL, multicast-based
design?
As Russ mentioned: Apart from the widespread adoption argument (which I
consider somewhat moot: I don't think zeroconf is that prevalent in the
server world and on desktop UPnP is probably better known as well), same
holds true for SLP.
It's true that SLP is not as feature-rich as the others. On the other hand
we look for the service discovery only and SLP is exactly that. Simple and
(so far it looks like) working. It's also an older technology than the
others however OpenSLP is still being maintained and developed (new release
only a few days ago).
> which is already implemented in Pegasus and just needs to be
turned on?
(Sure, that consideration could govern, assuming its SLP support is good
enough.)
This is a killer feature for me.
The openslp pacakge in Fedora is not in a best shape (no systemd unit, broken
runtime dependencies...). This shouldn't be a big problem though -- I'll try
to do something about it.
I'll keep tinkering with OpenSLP in LMI Shell and report the results
eventually.
Regards,
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Tomáš Smetana
Platform Engineering, Red Hat