CIDR for node scanning

[tsyesika]

I could imagine a lot of networks might have a few nodes per LAN you could maybe do it so if they enetered 10...* or 10.1.. or 192.168.0.* or some combanation of the unroutable ips you could parse those and then scan for other nodes which you could add, if you setup more than one or two it could be helpful. This also could alert the node admin in the admin page and allow you to click accept and have it easier for node setup rather than having to manually alter files on the each node and enter other ip's.

Node linking needs to be easier.

[danwdart]

Scanning: like an nmap? Linking easier: how?

[tsyesika]

At the moment linking requires altering a mongodb file to sync databases and both add nodes and things. It would be awesome to just tell it to find the nodes on the network and then it talk to the node maybe via some kind of node to node protocol giving it the settings and then the admin can accept the node link in a control panel and it would just make those changes for your and initialise the sync.

[danwdart]

The simplest things this is are:

• Adding of an unconfirmed IP on /nodestatus
• Confirming of an unconfirmed IP using a new JSON key on /nodestatus.

[danwdart]

Yes - so what was the point of nodes talking to each other?

[danwdart]

The only useful practical purpose of this is to put hostnames/IPs onto videos so you can reference/get the video from the right source. Hosts ought to be able to validate and ping one another too

[danwdart]

This happens nodes can talk to each other - this has worked for a while. What's left here?

[danwdart]

Adding CIDR to scanner