[ale] OT: device discovery

[jimpop at yahoo.com (Jim Popovitch)]

On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 18:24 -0400, David Hamm wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a device that runs Linux and is to be delivered into environments that 
> have little or no technical resources, DHCP may not be running either so I 
> need a way of "discovering" the device regardless of it's IP address.  
> 
> One technique is to maintain an alias on the interface (IE 172.16.*.*) and 
> temporarily ad an alias to the system on which the "discovery" will be run.
> 
> Can anyone suggest a more elegant method?

Check into UPnP and SSDP, they (IIRC) incorporate the 169.0.0.0/8
network for use exactly as you describe.

-Jim P.