elmo-net / router

Kademlia implementation for games
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Peer discovery in LANs #14

Open HaMster21 opened 9 years ago

HaMster21 commented 9 years ago

Intention

User should be given different ways of discovering other peers to connect to. This includes the "good old" ways, where you would sit with your friends in a local network and want to fire up a game to play without much network configuration.

Requirements

Every peer is listening for incoming broadcast messages for peer discovery. Maybe there is also a way to discover random peers in the network, so peers don't need to assign a predefined number (--> security). The broadcast port is not used for later communication, just for discovery.