Service discovery: should we use SLP?

Russell Doty rdoty at redhat.com
Fri Jun 21 22:46:44 UTC 2013


On Fri, 2013-06-21 at 18:26 -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> Russell Doty <rdoty at 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?
My understanding is that SLP is included in base RHEL and is
multicast-based. I don't have any insight into relative adoption (which
is part of why I'm asking).
> 
> > 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.)
Well, it's a significant data point... Would like to understand the
tradeoffs between SLP, Avahi and zeroconf before making a final
decision.
> 
> - FChE
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