I've to implement some discovery for an internal solution.
We have two kind of software:
- Server: They manage a lot of hardware devices and can give access to some data (.Net remoting)
- Client: They can display data of one or several Server(graphs, stats, ...)
Currently we are setting the IP by hand on the client.
We would like to implement a discovery.
We have the following requirement:
- It has to be usable in c#
- When a server is up, it must be displayed as available very fastly
- Same when it shut down
- If the server doesn't stops in a clean way, we can have a way to detect it(no need to be very fast, can be done every 10-15min).
- It can give me some information(Server version, port to use, ...)
- We have client computer with multiple network cards, we must discover server on each cards
Do you have a protocol, a library, ... to advice?
We tried UPnP, but seems there is no good Server+client implementation in c# that meet our requirement
