On Tue, 2011-11-08 at 19:54 +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > The idea is to use an UDP broadcast to discover all devices, > and a similar UDP broadcast to configure the devices. > In the latter the MAC will be the key to address individual devices. You could almost be describing link-local IPv6. Each device automatically gets an IPv6 address based on its MAC address, which you can use for unicast addressing. The broadcast (or multicast) bit is easy enough too. -- dwmw2
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