- Avahi is a system which facilitates service discovery on a local network --
- this means that you can plug your laptop or computer into a network and
- instantly be able to view other people who you can chat with, find printers
- to print to or find files being shared. This kind of technology is already
- found in MacOS X (branded 'Rendezvous', 'Bonjour' and sometimes 'ZeroConf')
- and is very convenient.
- This package implements IPv4LL, "Dynamic Configuration of
- IPv4 Link-Local Addresses" (IETF RFC3927), a protocol for
- automatic IP address configuration from the link-local
- 169.254.0.0/16 range without the need for a central server. It
- is primarily intended to be used in ad-hoc networks which lack a
+ Avahi is a system which facilitates service discovery on a local network --
+ this means that you can plug your laptop or computer into a network and
+ instantly be able to view other people who you can chat with, find printers
+ to print to or find files being shared. This kind of technology is already
+ found in MacOS X (branded 'Rendezvous', 'Bonjour' and sometimes 'ZeroConf')
+ and is very convenient.
+ This package implements IPv4LL, "Dynamic Configuration of
+ IPv4 Link-Local Addresses" (IETF RFC3927), a protocol for
+ automatic IP address configuration from the link-local
+ 169.254.0.0/16 range without the need for a central server. It
+ is primarily intended to be used in ad-hoc networks which lack a