[avahi] problems with two interface setup

Alexey Fisher bug-track at fisher-privat.net
Wed Mar 9 05:32:03 PST 2011


Am Mittwoch, den 09.03.2011, 14:06 +0100 schrieb Lennart Poettering:
> On Wed, 09.03.11 08:36, Alexey Fisher (bug-track at fisher-privat.net) wrote:
> 
> > > > after i switch eth0 off (pull off the cable), avahi stops announcing
> > > > _presence_tcp, or at least do not re announce it on other interface/ip,
> > > > even if empaty is listening on wlan0 too. I can force and send directly
> > > > salut/xmmp message to emapty for testing, so the problem should be on
> > > > avahi part.
> > > > 
> > > > Your thoughts?
> > > 
> > > If wait for a while, does the problem fix itself?
> > 
> > This question sound sarcastic, but it is probably not what you mean :D 
> 
> Nope, it was actually meant the way I said it, i.e. that the TTL
> handling should fix it.
> 
> > No, the problem do not fix itself. Even if i wait one day.
> > 
> > > I presume the wlan and the cable ethernet are the same network actually?
> > 
> > Yes.
> 
> Can you check if you have an sylsog output related to "collisions"?

No, there is nothing about collisions in syslog. The interfaces have
different IP's. And there is only one published service.

One more thing, if both interfaces connected to same network (two
_workstaions are published), other PC will cache both of them, but it
can resolve only one of them. 



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