[Nut-upsdev] Changes to upscli_connect (and general discovery)

[Arjen de Korte]

Citeren Charles Lepple <clepple op gmail.com>:

>> For the purpose of auto-detecting servers I'd propose to resurrect  
>> the UDP code and broadcast the servers presence once every 10  
>> seconds or so. Yes, this has its drawbacks too (to make sure the  
>> broadcasts reach the potential clients), but this has the advantage  
>> to be setup by a (knowledgeable) network administrator instead of  
>> an aspiring NUT user that has no clue where the server (s)he needs  
>> to connect to is located.
> On the other hand, broadcasting presence is the kind of feature that  
> would need to be enabled manually in order to be useful, and if  
> enabled by default, would be a nuisance.

Not necessarily. The upsd server could *also* listen to UDP  
broadcasts. So a nut-scanner would send a "Who's there?" packet to the  
broadcast address and all upsd servers listening would then reply to  
the nut-scanner.

Best regards, Arjen
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