system-config-network & Zeroconf

[Dan Williams]

On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 22:45 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Wed, 05.03.08 15:08, Sunil Ghai (sunilkrghai at gmail.com) wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > We currently don't have support for Zeroconf networks in
> > system-config-network as like we do have in GNOME NetworkManager. Is there
> > any work going on?
> 
> What do you mean by the blurred term "Zeroconf"? Fedora installs Avahi
> by default and NM does IPv4LL as a fallback when DHCP fails. What else
> do you expect?
> 
> (Sure, afaik nm still uses its own ipv4ll code, and it should use
> avahi-autoipd instead, but generally all the zeroconf technologies are
> available by default. There's room for a lot of polishing,
> though. Ubuntu's Zeroconf integration is admittedly much more refined)

Yep; that's still on my to-do list; I already did the work for the OLPC
version of NM and while the approach and dbus action script are correct
the code parts are not directly usable.  The NM internal LL code needs
to die die die.

Dan