Re: LookupDiscovery MulticastTimeToLive

Dan Creswell <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.sun.jini
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Mark Brouwer wrote:
> Rikard Elofsson wrote:
>> Mark Brouwer skrev:
>>> In case you have shared services they can join the lookup services of
>>> all the developers. This way clients see the developer specific services
>>> as well as the shared services."
>>> If the above is not clear or or there are reasons why this wouldn't work
>>> in your environment please let me know.
>>
>> OK something like that could work I guess or using unicast when
>> developing or similar but my problem is that it has to work sooner or
>> later when deployed "for real" so an explanation to what is wrong would
>> be very nice... Is it a)a bug (unlikely) or is it b)me not understanding
>> (more likely)?
>
> I shamefully admit I've never configured the TTL so I have no experience
> with it, but although Dan's response suggest otherwise it was my
> understanding too a TTL of 0 wouldn't let the packets escape the host
> (some Multicast IPv4 FAQ confirms this), but I've no idea what kind of
> issues there are with the various IP stacks and whether there is a
> difference with regard to IPv4/IPv6.

And the last thing I'll mention is that this whole behaviour is a
co-operative effort between Jini, IP stacks and the network itself so
there's plenty of room for unexpected behaviours.

Rikard, given what you are claiming you've configured and the behaviours
you're describing I'd be digging out my packet sniffer to see what's
going on because there are too many variables:

(1)     You might've misconfigured something

(2)     You might've forgotten to configure something

(3)     You might've forgotten to restart something

(4)     You might have an errant network stack on one or more hosts.

Dan.

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> Mark
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