Posts in category discovery

Network discovery in the daemon

The daemon has now an auto-discovery capability on its local network(s). It will scan the LAN (on all of its ethernet interfaces) and will try to discover all hosts which are up (answer ping).

With  10 to 30 network threads in each pool (the default beiing 5, is resource-conservative), it can be faster than nmap to do a full LAN discovery (you will gain ARP resolution and Pyro resolution bonuses).

You can  disable the feature if you don't like it or experiment problems with it (don't forget to report bugs in this case).

We finally got rid of nmap and all those consuming subprocess.Popen calls, with a big functionnality gain.