[avahi] Shifting interfaces

Zachary Loafman zml+avahi at zml.net
Mon Aug 27 13:13:18 PDT 2007


On 8/27/07, Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 27.08.07 11:29, Zachary Loafman (zml+avahi at zml.net) wrote:
>
> > Hmm. Is avahi-autoipd supposed to notice if someone slaps a new,
> > routable address onto an interface? It looks like there's code in
> > there to notice it, but I'm curious if this is supposed to work:
>
> Yes, avahi-autoipd subscribes to network configuration changes and
> removes its own address if a routable address is assigned. (Unless
> --force-bind is passed).
>
> And it works ... on Linux.

Yeah, it's using the wrong message types for the RTM_DELADDR and
RTM_ADDADDR messages. I'll open a bug soon and submit a patch, after I
figure out what else is wrong in here.

...Zach


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