Bug#407217: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#407217: avahi-daemon/mt-daapd disappear from network after ~1 hour

[Sjoerd Simons]

reassign 407217 linux-2.6
severity 407217 normal
thanks,


On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 10:29:20PM +0000, Jon Dowland wrote:
> Package: avahi-daemon
> Version: 0.6.15-2
> Severity: important
> 
> Hello, I use mt-daapd and thus avahi-daemon on a Thecus
> n2100 embedded ARM box. I routinely find that the shares do
> not appear on workstations on the same LAN after a period of
> inactivity. Restarting the daemons via /etc/init.d results
> in them re-appearing.

I've got exactly the same box with the same issue myself. This is actually a
bug in the network driver/card. After some time avahi no longer receives
multicast packets from the group it subscribed too. 

To work around this issue you can set the network interface to promisc mode..
Unfortunately that means that unrelated network traffic will also get passed to
linux instead of being dropped by the network card :(

Anyway, this is a kernel issue not a avahi one

  Sjoerd
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