In this section, we present the experimental testbed used to conduct experiments for measuring the performance of Zeroconf implementations. For all tests, we have used Dell XPS M1210 laptops (dual-bootable: Windows XP Pro SP2 and Linux Debian 4). The performance evaluation metric used in all tests conducted is the discovery time of services, which we have measured in milliseconds (ms). In the following sub-sections, we present details of various tests performed for evaluating Zeroconf, and interpretation of the results obtained. It is worthwhile noting that we repeated the same test several times and recorded the average value obtained in each case.