Re: local link configuration daemon?

From: Oliver Neukum (oliver@neukum.name)
Date: Tue Nov 19 2002 - 12:27:10 EST


Am Dienstag, 19. November 2002 18:02 schrieb Folkert van Heusden:
> Hi,
>
> I just read this RFC on 'local link configuration' (mirrored at
> http://keetweej.vanheusden.com/~folkert/draft-ietf-zeroconf-ipv4-linklocal.
>t xt ) and I was wondering: is this planned to be in the kernel? Or should
> occur this in userspace? (and if so; does it exist? freshmeat/google say it
> doesn't)
> Initially I thought I just configure an ip-address in that range on an
> adapter, but then I read that there is this whole protocol of sending and
> receiving arp-requests etc.

Brad Hards has done a preliminary implementation that runs in user space.

        HTH
                Oliver

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