Re: [gomd-devel] GOMD autodiscovery bug

[Matthias Rechenburg]

Hi Roel, me again,

On Freitag 22 August 2003 11:53, address@hidden wrote:
> Hi again, :)
>
> when executing "start ad 300", Gomd tries to reach IP adresses over 255 at
> the end. It searched for 192.168.0.300, wich couldn't exist in IPv4.

hehehehe, a good one ;)))

>
> also, I think autodiscovery could be much easier and better using a
> technoligy invented by Apple: "Rendezvous". this broadcasts services and
> can search for services of a certain type. Howl is a package for Linux
> implementing it. Get it at http://www.swampwolf.com/products/

mhmmm, i do not like more deps ;) 

Anyways the question is why not simply use the local nodelist 
for the auto discovery ?

The local gomd knows all system-id's from the active openMosix nodes
in the cluster so there is (to my mind) no need to probe all ip addresses
in the same subnet (also a system can have more then one nic, what happens
then ?)
To my mind we should derive the list with the ip-addresses to probe for a 
running gomd from the node-id's from the local nodelist.
This will prevent probing a lot of ip-addresses which actually cannot run
a gomd because they are non-openMosix nodes, not in the same cluster
or offline.
(for deriveing the ip-address from the node-id you can simply look into
the omdiscd source or i can help)

>
> cheers,
>
> Roel Baardman

many thanks for all your helpfull investigations + testing :))

all the best,

Matt
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