Wad, people with network fu we're trying to get the XS to reply to the activation requests from the XO. The service is listening on 172.18.0.1:191 which is what the non-activated laptops are trying.
The laptop, however, picks an address in the 172.18.16.x range. The server is seeing the request on its msh0 interface but not responding to it - Looking at `tshark -i msh0` we do see the requests to 172.18.0.1:191 ("prospero" proto, eh) on the XS. - Changing the ip addr msh0 on another XO to something in the 172.18.16.x range, we can no longer contact the XS. Wireshark sees the traffic but the XS doesn't pay attention. I am not 100% certain how to get the XS to pay attention to this traffic... I am taming the jungle of bridges for the F9 upgrade, but this is still a bit over my head. cheers, m ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Douglas Bagnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 7:17 PM Subject: Re: [Techteam] Activating laptops from the school server To: "C. Scott Ananian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Tech-team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Scott wrote: > It's pretty simple: > * The schoolserver binds 172.18.0.1 and IPv6 link-local address > fe80::abcd:ef01 on all interfaces > * It listens on port 191 on those addresses on all interfaces. > * When it receives a connection, it reads exactly 11 bytes. > * It checks its "database" (text file, directory, in-memory hash) to > see if it has activation leases for the serial number given by those > 11 bytes. If so, it sends it. > * It closes the connection. I've written a server that seems to do this (at least for IPv4), but laptops looking for leases like using addresses in the 172.18.16.x range, to which the server is not paying attention. We're working on that. I see that you can run the XO's init in interactive mode. Is there a way to do that on a laptop without a lease? I'll start commenting out bits and pieces, but any pointers would be great. Douglas _______________________________________________ Techteam mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/techteam -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel