[avahi] avahi in ad-hoc network

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 29.12.09 23:07, Conner, Eric (Eric.Conner at QinetiQ-NA.com) wrote:

> I have avahi running on 3 nodes in an ad-hoc network running over
> B.A.T.M.A.N.  I have a center node that provides a hop between 2 end
> nodes.  I can ping each of the node from any of the other nodes as well
> as ssh into each of them as well so I know the network is well
> established over the BATMAN daemon.  The center node can see the
> published avahi services of each end but the 2 end nodes can not see the
> avahi services of the other ends.  Is there some special configuration
> needed to get avahi to browse or publish over the hop?  
> 
> Has anyone ever configured avahi over an ad-hoc network that requires a
> link routing protocol like BATMAN?

I am not sure on which level BATMAN operates. If it works on the
ethernet level and provides correct mcast routing for link-local mcast
groups then Avahi should work just fine.

Lennart

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