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Re: Time to kill layer 2

Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com> Thu, 14 April 2016 16:54 UTC

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Subject: Re: Time to kill layer 2
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@hallambaker.com>
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On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 12:32 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker <
phill@hallambaker.com> wrote:

> Going to unicast should help. Multicast configuration really doesn't
> work on a network with as many hubs and devices as mine has.
>

​multicast would work, if all the hubs/devices did multicast properly,
right? :)
it's not clear that unicast works, if the problem you are trying to solve
is service-discovery... absent some registry of 'services' for your clients
to use, of course (which is the point of the mdns thingy).​

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