[avahi] Behaviour with two interfaces.

Sebastien Estienne sebastien.estienne at gmail.com
Sun Mar 5 09:04:25 PST 2006


there is a way to know if 2 services (or more) are actualy the same
service with a different ip, it is using the cookie. Look in the api
which function does this.

On 3/4/06, Peter Onion <Peter.Onion at btinternet.com> wrote:
> When I connected my laptop to my network today I forgot to turn off the
> wireless interface.  I have a combined Wireless AP/Router/Hub/ADSL Modem
> which forwards packets between it's wireless and wired intrerfaces.  So
> in effect the laptop had two interfaces on the same network.  All the
> services it advertised appeared twice which really confused some of my
> client code which only expect to see one instance of a service type on
> the network !   I'm going to have to rewrite some of my code to handle
> this situation.
>
> Peter
>
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