Direct connections between nodes are in the same LAN (behind common NAT)

[Graham Cobb]

On Wednesday 23 February 2011 15:52:09 ZioPRoTo (Saverio Proto) wrote:
> > Daniel Schall is working on a patch to have tinc daemons on the sae LAN
> > autodetect each other, so in the future tinc may solve this problem
> > automatically.
> 
> please consider using multicast packets for discovery instead of broadcast.
> 
> using multicast tincd will be able to discover other tincd demons
> across subnets of the multicast domain. This is very common in
> wireless communities. Moreover using dbus and libavahi you can reuse
> service discovery protocols/solutions without recoding all the stuff
> from scratch.

Another vote for using Avahi -- let's try to avoid adding yet another service 
discovery protocol!

Graham