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From: Brad Hards <bhards@bigpond.net.au>
To: Wes Felter <wesley@felter.org>, Miles Lane <miles.lane@attbi.com>
Subject: Re: Will we have UPnP support for Linux?
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 10:07:55 +1100
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On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 06:00, Wes Felter wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 19:47, Miles Lane wrote:
>
> [UPnP URLs snipped]
>
> Is this a kernel feature? AFAIK UPnP is just another application
> protocol on top of UDP, so it can be done in userspace. And didn't Intel
> release a UPnP stack on SourceForge? Whoa, I see 7 UPnP projects on SF;
> at least one of them is probably real.
Probably you want to go with the IETF approach - Service Location Protocol 
(RFC2608, RFC2609, RFC2610, RFC2614 and some others). There is a reasonable 
open source implementation (OpenSLP), and no dodgy vendor association.

Brad

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