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Feature request: Push notifications #20

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nikp123 opened this issue Aug 10, 2023 · 0 comments
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Feature request: Push notifications #20

nikp123 opened this issue Aug 10, 2023 · 0 comments

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nikp123 commented Aug 10, 2023

Lets say your colleague happens to be offline. What now?

You could ask them to get towards their computer, but that is lame and requires a bit of social skills. Instead we go for a overly complicated technical solution.

  1. Clients exchange MAC and IP information (despite not required for chatting)
  2. One of the machines in the "network" goes offline
  3. Other clients try to send messages but fail
  4. They send a regular directed ARP packet that will wake up the computer
  5. Try step 3 again and succeed (hopefully)

In case the machine doesnt have wake-on-arp supported in hardware, theres my shameless plug

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