[olpc-software] [Fwd: Re: [avahi] scalability of avahi (or mdns-sd in genera

[Krishna Sankar]

Good notes. Couple of random thoughts ...

A) From our perspective, my (uninformed, as I am still learning the pragmas of OLPC) view is that, for > 50 nodes, with lots of network traffic, we might have to go to a powered, infrastructure mode; (I am ready to be corrected) 
B) Most probably other constraints will kick-in before we reach the ZeroConf limits
C) A ZeroConf substrate is applicable not only at the connectivity layer but also at the collaborative layer
D) Unless we are leveraging the bus for other functionalities, avahi *might* be slightly heavyweight; we might have to implement ZeroConf on the bare metal
E) Also, we might need more integration and context-awareness between the mesh layer and the ZeroConf layer; may be even optimize some of the exchanges.
Thoughts ?
Cheers
<k/>

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> avahi (or mdns-sd in general)]
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> Some notes about avahi/zeroconf and scalability.
> 
> --Chris
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