Re: Multipeer Connectivity Questions
Re: Multipeer Connectivity Questions
- Subject: Re: Multipeer Connectivity Questions
- From: "Quinn \"The Eskimo!\"" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 18:06:13 +0000
On 19 Nov 2013, at 17:42, Jens Alfke <email@hidden> wrote:
> I meant, do Macs support the ad-hoc WiFi mode that doesn’t require a base station?
Yes. This is part of the Mac's AirDrop story, and why AirDrop on the Mac is restricted to modern hardware.
> And does Bonjour use this mode, so two Macs (or a Mac and an iOS device) publishing/browsing the same service can discover each other?
Yes, and no.
Yes, AirDrop on the Mac uses Bonjour over peer-to-peer Wi-Fi.
No, simple Bonjour code will not let you do peer-to-peer Wi-Fi between Macs or between OS X and iOS. The NSNetService.includesPeerToPeer property is not available on OS X.
> But how about “will Apple open-source the MPC protocol?”
I can't predict the future. We've certainly not made any announcements along those lines.
> Closed network protocols are so 20th-century. And I’m unlikely to use MPC unless it gets some cross-platform support, at least to Mac OS.
Fair enough. But be aware that, while the Bonjour-over-Ethernet (and Ethernet-like interfaces) protocol is an open standard, both the Bonjour-over-Bluetooth and Bonjour-over-peer-to-peer-Wi-Fi protocols are similarly not documented )-:
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Quinn "The Eskimo!" <http://www.apple.com/developer/>
Apple Developer Relations, Developer Technical Support, Core OS/Hardware
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