On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, Jeremy Karlson wrote:
>Has anyone had any success setting up Howl (Zeroconf) on OpenBSD 4.3.
>I've done a lot of Googling and read the (minimal) docs, but I can't get
>it working. I'm unable to determine if I'm doing something incorrectly,
>or if it is a problem with Howl, or something else. I'm looking for
>suggestions on where to start.
IIRC, multicast processing must be explicitly enabled. Have you done
that?
Dave
>Background: Fresh install of OpenBSD 4.3 i386 within the last couple of
>days. All software is installed from packages. I'm using a Linksys
>EG1032v3 network card with the RE driver. Starting Howl in debug mode
>seems to indicate that it's sending the multicast packets to somewhere I
>can't explain - 224.0.0.251.
>
># ifconfig re0
>re0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> lladdr 00:14:bf:54:f7:df
> groups: egress
> media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT full-duplex,rxpause,txpause)
> status: active
> inet6 fe80::214:bfff:fe54:f7df%re0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
> inet 192.168.2.11 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255
>
># cat /etc/mDNSResponder.conf
>Galactica _ssh._tcp local. 22
>
># mDNSResponder -d -f /etc/mDNSResponder.conf
>[howl] registered interface 192.168.2.11 (23126)
>[howl] starting up... (23126)
>[howl] registered Galactica (23126)
>[assert] error: 64 (Host is down)
>[assert] where: "socket.c", "sw_socket_udp_really_sendto", line: 969
>[howl] error sending packet to 224.0.0.251 (23126)
>[assert] error: 64 (Host is down)
>[assert] where: "socket.c", "sw_socket_udp_really_sendto", line: 969
>[howl] error sending packet to 224.0.0.251 (23126)
>[assert] error: 64 (Host is down)
>[assert] where: "socket.c", "sw_socket_udp_really_sendto", line: 969
>...
>
>Thanks.
>
>-- Jeremy
>
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Dave Anderson
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