Has anyone ever considered making the peer-to-peer table automatically populate? Seems like when an ECOM does a broadcast due to a RX or WX command it could also send in the broadcast packet a message along the lines of "FYI, my IP address is x.x.x.x" and then the responding ECOM could update its peer-to-peer table to map IP to ID and then respond with a packet that included the requested data as well as the same message of "FYI, my IP address is x.x.x.x". In this manner all ECOMs could know each other's IP on a given logical LAN very quickly and could then transition to directed communications instead of all the endless broadcast packets. If a directed comm failed for some reason the ECOM could wipe that entry in its peer-to-peer table and try again thereby automatically learning new IP to ID mappings quickly with little excess network overhead.
Pipe dream?
Topic: Automatic Peer-To-Peer Table (Read 28427 times)