[avahi] avahi-autoipd and FireWire networking

[Jeff Koftinoff]

I'm the guy... but other things took priority and I did not get  
involved in making a fix. I'd be available to test a fix, however...

jeffk

On 23-Feb-08, at 4:48 AM, Jeremy Visser wrote:

> 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/
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