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Add specific support for broadcast #17

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tjguk opened this issue Apr 12, 2016 · 0 comments
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Add specific support for broadcast #17

tjguk opened this issue Apr 12, 2016 · 0 comments
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tjguk commented Apr 12, 2016

At present we use a broadcast socket as part of the beacon mechanism but it might be useful to support it specifically within networkzero, eg wait_for_broadcast / send_broadcast.

The upsides:

  • It's a standard mechanism
  • It can be useful especially for dynamic discovery

The downsides:

  • It's likely to interfere with the beacon (at least: we'd have to work quite hard to make sure it didn't)
  • It adds a little clutter to the API and it's just about possible to use the discovery mechanism itself for some of the same purposes
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