Zeroconf library

[Tom Parker <palfrey tevp net>]

I'd been thinking about the zeroconf/link-local dynamic config 
possiblity, and considered that the "make existing program into a 
library" approach like the DHCPD stuff was a good plan. Hence, I've 
attached my first workings in that direction. The directory includes a 
patch against the root to alter Makefile.am and configure.in to get it 
to compile in ok. It's basically the autoipd from Howl with some minor 
modifications, and stripped down a bit. Therefore it relies on the 
libhowl library (we may eventually want to think about doing things like 
this as configure-time options).

Currently it doesn't actually do very much beyond increasing the 
NetworkManager binary size a bit, but there's now a set of 
autoipd_{init,run,destroy} functions that could now easily be used in 
the main programs. Any thoughts on *when* we should use zeroconf? Given 
as Debian certainly doesn't mention it in the networking config, and I'm 
guessing likely also for other distros. However, using it as a "if dhcp 
fails" option sounds like the best idea. So, we'd just need to start 
calling things when/if dhcp fails....

Tom

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