system-config-network & Zeroconf

[Sunil Ghai]

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Lennart Poettering <mzerqung at 0pointer.de>
wrote:

> On Wed, 05.03.08 15:08, Sunil Ghai (sunilkrghai at gmail.com) wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > We currently don't have support for Zeroconf networks in
> > system-config-network as like we do have in GNOME NetworkManager. Is
> there
> > any work going on?
>
> What do you mean by the blurred term "Zeroconf"? Fedora installs Avahi
> by default and NM does IPv4LL as a fallback when DHCP fails. What else
> do you expect?
>
> (Sure, afaik nm still uses its own ipv4ll code, and it should use
> avahi-autoipd instead, but generally all the zeroconf technologies are
> available by default. There's room for a lot of polishing,
> though. Ubuntu's Zeroconf integration is admittedly much more refined)
>
> Lennart (who happens to be "da Linux Zeroconf man")
>
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Well I was not aware of  that NM checks for IPv4LL addresses. Being a
student, I was just looking for a good project idea as I am learning about
Zeroconf these days.
Now, I would like to know more about NM. :)

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Sunil Ghai
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