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"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" <neil@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 15:02:36 +0100, "Rachael the Wiccan Rat"
> <none@badrats.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >
> >"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" <neil@nospam.com> wrote in message
> >news:l5qvn0hmdl0eltvgpvt0hlp26b99pe4k3d@4ax.com...
> >> No, now I've figured out what the hell you're on about, I much prefer
> >> Simeda's Pocketster for this - it works using Rendezvous protocol, so
> >> rather than subscribing to a feed, you just 'discover' nearby devices
> >> and connect to their music server ;-))
> >>
> >>
http
/www.simeda.com/pocketster.html complete with own
> >> iPod-as-PPC-Disk hacks.
> >>
> >This sounds pretty cool - any ideas of how many people really use it ? Do
> >the podcasting devices show up as peers with a normal wi-fi scanning
> >proggie, like wififofum ?
>
> No, it's a different tech : Podcast uses RDF feeds to indicate a
> transmission. You need some way to aggregate these feeds, which
> normally requires a web server of some sort.
>
> While Pocketster does use a web server to respond to requests for
> content, it's not sending RSS. Rather, the protocol itself
> ("Rendezvous") indicates that a service is available on the network.
>
> Other clients using Rendezvous then 'discover' the service
> transparently, so your PPC would 'find' pocketster clients running on
> other PPCs which were broadcasting.
>
> In fact, the rendezvous protocol actually puts the PPC's Wifi into
> promiscuous mode, which means it's rather acting like an access point
> - it will accept connections rather than just be a node on a
> pre-defined network.
I see.
>
> > I ask because as I was idly wardrving through town
> >the other day I picked up a peer called "bethanyradio". I thought it
might
> >be one of these sorts of things but didn't try to connect (I never do
when
> >wardriving as politeness requires).
>
> Probably you're seeing an AP's SSID called bethanyradio, rather than a
> specific machine with the Wifi card (peer to peer):
>
> I guess this is going to happen if you set your Configure Wireless
> Networks to access 'all available' or 'computer to computer' -
Not me. I disable wzc when wardriving to stop wzc connecting me to access
points that aren't mine by accident - and when it is running I only want to
connect to my own AP, hence I don't check "connect to unprefered" if that's
what you mean. It's just wififofum that is showing the hits.
if you
> set it to access APs only, probably bethanyradio would still be there.
> If you set it to computer to computer then bethanyradio would
> disappear if it was an Access Point.
wififom detects either afaik, reported this one as a peer. If I see it again
I'll investigate further (as far as you can do from a distance anyway ;-) )
Rachael
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