Hi All, I was wondering if the developers were planning to implement the option in the multicast-dns RFC section 6.5 to allow avahi-daemon to request unicast responses rather than the default multicast responses.
The reason I ask this is because on my home network, I have a couple of Macs and Linux machines that are all wireless through a Linksys WRT54G wireless router. The problem is that multicast is broken on this router over the wireless interface.[1] This means, my Linux machine can try to make requests to the local network for DAAP shares through avahi, and the Mac replies accordingly but the response never reaches the Linux machine beacuse (a) multicast packets are not routed properly, and (b) promiscious mode does not work on the linux ipw2100 drivers. I notice that iTunes on Mac OS X will request multicast dns replies with the unicast response flag set for it's query, so on my network there is a weird asymmetry where my DAAP server is resolvable by the Mac, but my Mac's iTunes DAAP server is not resolvable by the Linux machine. I've had a quick run around the code and documentation and can see possibly where the changes may be made. I'm just really asking whether the developers were considering adding this feature, and if they were willing to accept a patch that implements this feature, and if not, why not. Or of course, maybe I'm missing something bleedingly obvious in my home network setup that is causing this problems, and I'm just jumping into the deep end to solve a simple problem. Thanks, Alastair [1] Sidenote: Multicast packets only get forwarded on the wired interface even if it originates from the wireless interface by their poorly implemented igmprt program. For some reason they've chosen a simple incomplete implementation rather than mrouted. _______________________________________________ avahi mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi
