Re: [gomd-devel] GOMD autodiscovery bug

[rbaardman]

Hi :))

> > > 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 ;)
> I _hate_ deps... (hehehe...) ;)




> > 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)
> >
> As gomd can be run also on non-oM machines (in this case the daemon
> returns
> system-only infos), the equation oM_node=running_gomd is not valid... ;)

How come it's called general OpenMosix Daemon then? :)

cheers,

Roel "roeles" Baardman

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