[avahi] avahi-daemon with Bonjour clients

[Lennart Poettering]

On Thu, 12.07.07 09:32, Gavin Panella (gavin at premolo.com) wrote:

> I've had a similar problem with a machine (called masaq) this week.  
> Services were being discovered from other hosts on the network (a  
> Linux box and a few Macs), but the address of masaq was not being  
> resolved, and masaq could see nothing.
> 
> Eventually I noticed (with Wireshark) that multicast was being  
> transmitted fine from masaq, but no multicast was ever reaching it.  
> Plugging masaq's NIC into a different switch resolved it. The problem  
> resurfaced when I plugged masaq back into the HomePlug (Devolo dLAN  
> Highspeed) adapter that it had previously been connected to.
> 
> Now that I've seen the symptoms I could probably spot this problem  
> sooner next time, but could anything be done automatically (when  
> Avahi starts perhaps) to begin diagnosis of problems with multicast?

I don't see how this could be done. Suggestions welcome.

Honestly I think these are all Linux driver bugs, because Multicasting
is still a more exotic feature that doesn't get that much testing.

Lennart

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