[avahi] multiple ethernet ports

[Jeff Koftinoff]

On 27-Aug-07, at 10:23 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote:

> On Mon, 27.08.07 10:11, Jeff Koftinoff (jeffk at jdkoftinoff.com) wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 27-Aug-07, at 10:01 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
>>
>>> Hmm, this is very strange. Apparently eth1394 do not have proper
>>> ethernet MAC addresses assigned? That specific code asks the kernel
>>> for
>>> the MAC of the interface and the kernel returns something which
>>> doesn't have the length 6. But ethernet MAC addresses are  
>>> supposed to
>>> have the length 6.
>>>
>>> Could you please paste the output of "ip link" on you machine?
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>>
>>> Lennart
>>>
>>
>> Firewire uses 8 bytes for their MAC's:
>
> Uh, oh. Could you please use wireshark and capture a little bit of the
> ARP traffic MacOSX generates when using IPv4LL on these interfaces?
> Just wondering if they include the full 8 byte MAC address in
> there. If so, adding support for this to avahi-autoipd should be
> relatively simple. Unfortunately I lack a fw cable. I'll try I can
> find one somewhere.
>
> Lennart

Sure! I'll have to install wireshark on the mac osx and will be back  
in the office tomorrow to try it out.

Regards
Jeff