On Thu, 12.07.07 09:32, Gavin Panella ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I've had a similar problem with a machine (called masaq) this week. > Services were being discovered from other hosts on the network (a > Linux box and a few Macs), but the address of masaq was not being > resolved, and masaq could see nothing. > > Eventually I noticed (with Wireshark) that multicast was being > transmitted fine from masaq, but no multicast was ever reaching it. > Plugging masaq's NIC into a different switch resolved it. The problem > resurfaced when I plugged masaq back into the HomePlug (Devolo dLAN > Highspeed) adapter that it had previously been connected to. > > Now that I've seen the symptoms I could probably spot this problem > sooner next time, but could anything be done automatically (when > Avahi starts perhaps) to begin diagnosis of problems with multicast?
I don't see how this could be done. Suggestions welcome. Honestly I think these are all Linux driver bugs, because Multicasting is still a more exotic feature that doesn't get that much testing. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 _______________________________________________ avahi mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi
