Re: Will we have UPnP support for Linux?

From: Brad Hards (bhards@bigpond.net.au)
Date: Fri Nov 01 2002 - 18:07:55 EST


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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:
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> [UPnP URLs snipped]
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> 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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