Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Brad Hards <> | | Subject | Re: lan based kgdb | | Date | Mon, 18 Nov 2002 08:48:40 +1100 |
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 08:32, David Lang wrote: > a couple quick questions from an end-user > > 1. will an interface be dedicated to this use, or will it share an > interface with other traffic. I imagined that it would have to be shared. The world is not a PC, and you can't trivially add extra connectivtity to that embedded ARM board...
<snip> > 3. if we really want to make this limited to the local wire why not use > something other then UDP? either another IP protocol number (more likly to > be blocked by routers) or somethign not IP compatable (so that routers > couldn't forward it if they wanted to). especially if you are talking > about useing a special (aka stripped down, simplified) stack for this > interface instead of the full-blown version If you really want link-local, use the link-local IP addresses (169.254/16). See http://files.zeroconf.org/draft-ietf-zeroconf-ipv4-linklocal.txt
(I actually have an implementation of this for linux, alas it is only in userspace :)
> normally I would agree that standards are good, becouse they let you > interoperate with other equipment, but in this case I'm not sure that's > really what we want. All communications is not IP :-) All _good_ communication is IP :)
> as someone managing 60 or so remote boxes, this sounds really nice, if it > can be made to work securely. OK, I'm confused again. Do you want remote, or to you want link-local?
Brad
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