Ted Percival wrote: > The two most common problems are: > 1. Firewall blocking UDP port 5353 > 2. Network driver doesn't support multicast properly > > It sounds like you're running all these commands on the same machine, > can you confirm or deny that? > > Anyway run `iptables -L` to see if there are firewall rules blocking UDP > port 5353. Perhaps this was also suggested on IRC. > > For #2 (network driver problem) you can test it by running > ifconfig eth0 promisc > and if it starts working at that point then it would be a bug in the > network interface driver's processing of multicast packets. > >
No firewall, network driver works fine. Running the commands on the same machine. It's definitely not the driver; I tested both setups (Slack 12.1/0.6.24, and Slack 12.2/0.6.24) on the same machine. Earlier setup works fine, latter one doesn't. Another tester reporter the following, but they are not sure if it may be causing the conflict: Quote: <snip> Here is something I noticed while checking out Avahi, here are the registered file descriptors: r...@edoras:/proc/19342/fd# ls -l total 0 lrwx------ 1 root root 64 2009-01-27 00:33 0 -> /dev/pts/1 lrwx------ 1 root root 64 2009-01-27 00:33 1 -> /dev/pts/1 lrwx------ 1 root root 64 2009-01-27 00:41 10 -> socket:[142997] lrwx------ 1 root root 64 2009-01-27 00:41 11 -> socket:[142998] lrwx------ 1 root root 64 2009-01-27 00:41 12 -> socket:[142999] lrwx------ 1 root root 64 2009-01-27 00:41 13 -> socket:[144867] lrwx------ 1 root root 64 2009-01-27 00:33 2 -> /dev/pts/1 lr-x------ 1 root root 64 2009-01-27 00:33 3 -> pipe:[142991] l-wx------ 1 root root 64 2009-01-27 00:41 4 -> pipe:[142991] lr-x------ 1 root root 64 2009-01-27 00:41 5 -> pipe:[142992] l-wx------ 1 root root 64 2009-01-27 00:41 6 -> pipe:[142992] lrwx------ 1 root root 64 2009-01-27 00:41 7 -> socket:[142993] lrwx------ 1 root root 64 2009-01-27 00:41 8 -> socket:[142995] lr-x------ 1 root root 64 2009-01-27 00:41 9 -> inotify Of those, only 0, 1 and 2 are existing, all the other pipes/sockets and inotify are currently not there, by running Strace, it appears that it gets stuck reading those sockets that are apparently not pointing anywhere: poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}, {fd=13, events=POLLIN}, {fd=12, events=POLLIN, revents=POLLIN}, {fd=11, events=POLLIN}, {fd=10, events=POLLIN}, {fd=9, events=POLLIN}, {fd=8, events=POLLIN}, {fd=7, events=POLLIN}, {fd=5, events=POLLIN}], 9, 423685) = 1 On 12.1, at least some of those sockets seem to be pointing somewhere. Just a guess though. </quote> I haven't had a chance to verify this yet. How could we go about testing some more? Thanks, -- -= Steve =- _______________________________________________ avahi mailing list avahi@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi