hislip discovery

[richy1989]

Hey, 

I am planing to make my device compatible to HiSLIP. 

Will HiSLIP devices be auto discovery by "VISA Find Resource" ?

And where are the specifications for the discovery algorithm .. to give me the chance to implement it on "server side"?

I only find the protocol specification from IVI... but there is nothing about the discovery process inside? 

Thanks for your help. 

[cymrieg · Accepted solution]

There is no discovery mechanism/protocol with HiSLIP. As HiSLIP is a LAN protocol and LXI is the "biggest player" in this space they currently require 2 different LAN discovery protocols: VXI-11 discovery portion only and mDNS (a.k.a. Bonjour, Avahi). LXI is about to drop the requirement for VXI-11 discovery as it doesn't support IPv6. So mDNS is the way to go and NI-MAX will discover mDNS devices and so does NI-VISA in their FindRsrc method.