[Spread-users] Unable to get daemons to communicate

Mårten Gustafson marten.gustafson at gmail.com
Wed Aug 19 10:02:16 EDT 2009


Ignore this, I'm an idiot.

I'd only verified the multicast in one direction. The OS X node was
running a firewall. Sorry to have bothered and thanks for a good piece
of software :-)



/mårten.

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Mårten
Gustafson<marten.gustafson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> After running Spread locally and developing a utility Java application
> I moved forward to test a deployment on two machines. My setup is
> simply
> machine A, Mac OS X 10.5.8 [1]
> machine B, CentOS 5.3 [2]
>
> Both are running Spread 4.1.0 built from source.
>
> I've "verified" IP-multicast between the two machines using NicNack [3].
>
> The entire contents of my spread.conf is:
>
> Spread_Segment 225.192.168.10:4803 {
>        A 192.168.10.108
>        B 192.168.10.152
> }
>
> As far as I can make out of the manual and by searching through the
> mail archive this ought to be enough but the daemons are unable to
> "find" each other. Any pointers, RTFM's or suggestions would be most
> welcome.
>
>
>
> Thanks
> Mårten.
>
> [1] en0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>        inet6 fe80::225:bcff:fee8:2766%en0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
>        inet 192.168.10.108 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.10.255
>
> [2] eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:11:85:64:88:03
>          inet addr:192.168.10.152  Bcast:192.168.10.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>          inet6 addr: fe80::211:85ff:fe64:8803/64 Scope:Link
>          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>
> [3] http://newton.codecauldron.org/Troubleshooting+Multicast
>




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