Thanks Nick for your suggestion.

However , i am still unable to discover the SLP Services even after changing
the string to "service:acn.esta".

PFA , Wireshark Trace for your reference.

Please help me resolve the issue.

Thanks,
Janakiram

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Nick Wagner <ne...@wingedbeast.org> wrote:

> Wireshark is your friend.  I'll walk you through the trace.  Packets 6, 7,
> 11, and 12 are all SLP (SRVLOC) packets.  They are being multicast from your
> machine to the SLP multicast address/port.  Packets 6 & 11 are libslp
> looking for directory agents -- if you open up one of the packets you can
> see that the service type list is "service:directory-agent".  But packets 7
> & 12 show a problem. They are requesting "acn.esta" when they should be
> requesting "service:acn.esta".  Make sure the string you are passing to the
> SLPFindSrvs call is "service:acn.esta" and we can work from there.
>
> --Nick
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 7:33 AM, JanakiRam Palepu <
> palepujanaki...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Nick for your valuable suggestions.
>>
>> I've tried the possible ways suggested. Please find my inline replies.
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Nick Wagner <ne...@wingedbeast.org>wrote:
>>
>>> Whenever I this sort of thing happens, there are a few steps I take:
>>>
>>> 1) Check your firewall and make sure it is either off or your application
>>> is properly excepted.  This has solved countless problems for me.
>>>
>>
>> Firewall on Mac was turned-off by default. I got the results ( published
>> earlier with/wihtout SLPD existence ) were tested when Firewall was
>> turned-Off.
>> I dont think this option applies to my case.
>>
>>
>>> 2) If you are expecting unicast traffic between two devices, make sure
>>> they can send packets to each other.  Are they both plugged in?  Are their
>>> IP configurations correct?  Can they ping each other?
>>>
>>
>> I can ping the entertainment device from my mac and  subnet mask for
>> device as well as Mac are set to same value. I am sure that my network
>> settings are properly set to communicate with device.
>>
>>
>>> 3) Get a wireshark trace of what's going on in your network.  This will
>>> help you determine if no multicast is leaving your machine, if no other app
>>> is responding to your requests, or if something else is going on.  The
>>> wireshark display filter keyword for SLP is "srvloc".
>>>
>>
>> I've downloaded the Wireshark Tool from their website as per your advice
>> and able to capture the log in my network. Please find the attached log.
>>
>> As am new to this tool ,  i could not  interpret/understand the results
>> shown in log. It would be great if you can help me to understand the issue.
>>
>> My Mac IP : 192.168.1.97
>> Entertainment Device IP : 192.168.1.999
>>
>>
>>>
>>> 4) If you think it is your application, either in a debugger or with
>>> sprinkled test messages trace your code execution to see how it operates.
>>>  In your case, see if SLPFindSrvs actually gets to the point where it sends
>>> a multicast packet, or if it somehow returns early.
>>>
>>
>> I've investigated further on the calls being made internally when
>> SLPFindSrvs is being called. I suspect that NetworkMcastRqstRply is unable
>> to communicate futher hence its not able to detect the SLP Service inabsence
>> of Slpd.
>>
>> I am attaching the SLP Log for your reference.
>>
>> Please provide your analysis on the reports i have provided.
>>
>> Thanks in Advance.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Janakiram
>>
>
>

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