On Sat, 06.12.08 14:07, Matt Connolly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a strange problem getting a Max OS X (10.5) machine talking to > a Ubuntu Server (8.10 amd64) via bonjour / avahi. > > Everything works fine with the machines are connected like this: > > Router --- ethernet --- ubuntu server > Router --- ethernet --- mac laptop > > However, avahi and bonjour don't talk when connected like this: > > Router --- ethernet --- ubuntu server > Router --- wireless --- mac laptop > > Every other aspect of the network is working. HTTP, FTP, SSH between > the machines and the outside world via the router. > > I suspected that there may be a bug in the router that is not passing > UDP packets across the bridge from ethernet to wireless, but I tried a > simple python program to send and receive multicast packets, it works > with no problems. ie: sending multicast across the bridge works both > ways. > > Just to make things *really* confusing, if I enable ip6 in the avahi > config, then browsing works.
> Would there be some bug in the IP4 implementation of Avahi that is not > present in the IP6 implementation? Unlikely. Ther codepaths are mostly the same. It might rather be the other way round. Maybe you are running a firewall? 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
