Re: [GnomeMeeting-devel-list] Registration failure after resume

[Daniel Huhardeaux <devel tootai net>]

Damien Sandras a écrit :

> [...]
>
> > I think I found: it's zeroconf related. I don't know how you get the IP 
> > address from the workstation on which Ekiga is running, but this is what 
> > I have:
> >
> > nomade:/etc# ip addr show wlan0
> > 4: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000
> >    link/ether 00:0f:66:59:08:fe brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> >    inet 169.254.90.168/16 scope link wlan0
> >    inet 192.168.10.4/24 brd 192.168.10.255 scope global wlan0
> > nomade:/etc#
> >
> > OPAL is connecting to the first inet address from interface (here 
> > wlan0). Here is part of man ip:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > scope SCOPE_VALUE
> >              the  scope of the area where this address is valid.  The 
> > available scopes are listed in file
> >              /etc/iproute2/rt_scopes.  Predefined scope values are:
> >
> >                      global - the address is globally valid.
> >
> >                      site - (IPv6 only) the address is site local, i.e. 
> > it is valid inside this site.
> >
> >                      link - the address is link local, i.e. it is valid 
> > only on this device.
> >
> >                      host - the address is valid only inside this host.
> >
> > As you see, the first IP is _link_ so valide only this device. To have a 
> > normal behaviour, OPAL should take the first
> > *global* IP
> >
> >    
>
>
> Latest CVS is able to specify the IP on which you want to listen.
>  
Great, thanks.

> Notice the behavior you describe is probably not new.
>  
It is, but thats the magic of software evolution and to run SID: one day 
this is the default rule, the other one we apply another one :-) Sure 
that people runing Sarge or Breezy don't have such problems ;-)
--
Daniel