lighthouse library¶
Discover services in network using UDP multicasts:
- Server sends UDP multicast periodically (once per 4 seconds or so).
- Clients listens for these - server’s address is IP from which the multicast was received.
Multicast content:
- Port number of the listening TCP/TLS socket and transport.
- IO network names which reply to multicast (first network name to be used, if client doesn’t know it’s network name).
- Time stamp
- Random number