My experience with unmanaged switches is quite different -- multicasts are
just sent to everyone, rather than being dropped. Have you tried sniffing
to make sure the multicast gets to the other side, or that the windows
firewall isn't excluding the packets?
But, to answer your other question, I think slp.conf's net.slp.useBroadcast
variable is supposed to affect the UA functionality as well as SA/DA
functionality.
--Nick
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Robert Hegner <rheg...@hsr.ch> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm new to SLP and I'm also not really a network specialist...
>
> What I want to do right now is just a little test using slptool with two
> computers, one acting as a SA, the other acting as a UA.
>
> I tried this in my company network but I couldn't get it running. So I
> thought it might be easier to start in my own little private network
> first. Now the thing is that there is just an (unmanaged) switch in that
> network, so multicasts are not supported.
>
> Is it true that SLP can also use broadcasts, if multicasts are not
> allowed? I found that on the SA side I can force slpd to use broadcasts.
> But how can I make sure that findsrvs also uses broadcasts to find the SA?
>
> In my little private network I'm using OpenSLP 2.0.0 Beta 2 on WinXP boxes.
>
> Any help or information would be highly appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
> Robert.
>
> PS: I posted a similar question on serverfault, but it looks like not
> much SLP relation discussion is going on over there.
>
> http://serverfault.com/questions/294569/using-slp-service-location-protocol-in-an-environment-without-multicast-opensl
>
>
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