[zeromq-dev] zyre

[Pieter Hintjens]

WiFi direct is an abomination yet might be usable. I've no dogma here.
What works works.

On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 5:53 PM, Utsav Drolia <utsavdrolia at gmail.com> wrote:
> Apart from other discovery methods, have you thought of other communication technologies?
> For example, wifi-direct, Wifi 802.11z (TDLS), or bluetooth (if the data consists of small messages).
>
> I know adhoc-wifi is pretty much shot on most devices - but wifi-direct is available (at least on Android).
> Given the way wifi-direct works, zyre should work on it the exact same way it works over wifi access points.
> The only issue with wifi-direct on Android is the annoying pop-up to accept the connection every time a new connection takes place.
>
>
>> On Mar 20, 2015, at 9:41 AM, Pieter Hintjens <ph at imatix.com> wrote:
>>
>> Could you provide me a spec for the multicast? Then I'll add it to the RFC.
>>
>> The other discovery methods I'd like to eventually make are bluetooth
>> and manual (i.e. provide the Zyre API with node endpoints taken from
>> arbitrary mechanisms).
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Arnaud Loonstra <arnaud at sphaero.org> wrote:
>>> Zbeacon in Pyre supports multicast which can traverse network segments.
>>> As long as your network supports it.
>>>
>>> Discovery mechanisms are kind of difficult. We have 3 methods now in
>>> different versions of Zyre/Pyre/...
>>> - broadcast beacon
>>> - multicast beacon
>>> - gossip
>>>
>>> I'm hoping to get some more methods but I won't be working on that
>>> until the end of the year. If anybody has good pointers, ideas about
>>> useful mechanisms please post it.
>>>
>>> Rg,
>>>
>>> Arnaud
>>>
>>> On 2015-03-20 00:18, Joss Gray wrote:
>>>> zbeacon broadcasts udp packets broadcast for discovery so they wont
>>>> be
>>>> able to cross subnets.
>>>>
>>>> You will have to change the broadcast domain like you mentioned.
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 11:08 PM, Andrew Hume <andrew at humeweb.com
>>>> [3]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> we’re trying to run tyre (actually, the gyre implementation)
>>>>> across different subnets
>>>>> (that is, one node is in 10.20.59.xx and the other in
>>>>> 10.120.45.xx). they don’t see each other.
>>>>> what would be the best way to have them see each other?
>>>>>
>>>>> we could change the broadcast domain to 255.255.0.0 but that seems
>>>>> vaguely dodgy.
>>>>> any other hints?
>>>>>
>>>>>        andrew
>>>>>
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