[avahi] avahi-autoipd and FireWire networking

[Jeremy Visser]

Along with this guy...

        http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/avahi/2007-August/001124.html

...I've run into the issue where avahi-autoipd will refuse to work with
a FireWire LAN, because the hwaddr is "too long":

jeremy at rillian:~$ ifconfig eth2
eth2      Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-11-D8-00-01-46-46-9E-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00  
          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

jeremy at rillian:~$ sudo avahi-autoipd eth2
getsockname() returned invalid hardware address.

...which kinda sucks. Has any progress been made towards fixing this?

-- 
Jeremy Visser                                 http://jeremy.visser.name/

()                           ascii ribbon campaign — against HTML e-mail
/\                                               http://asciiribbon.org/

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
Url : http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/avahi/attachments/20080223/75b222e7/attachment.pgp