As the SOHO networks grow with home-automation and networked entertainment systems, the home user will have more installation concerns than the typical blinking 12:00. While TCP/IP is a terrific wide-area protocol, it wasn't designed to fill the niche of the local-area protocols it eventually replaced, leaving us with a bare local network. This presentation will show how protocols such as SLP, UPnP, and Zeroconf address the issues of local-link networking, including a demonstration of Zeroconf with Linux using Avahi.