[Openslp-users] OpenSLP 2.0 broadcast doesn't seem to work

[Sekhar, R. <rad...@em...>]

We are using OpenSLP 2.0.0.   We are interested in 2.0 primarily because of the support for broadcast since we will be eventually running in a proprietary network that does not yet support multicast.  We have found that we can't get broadcast to work, and we are interested in others' experience with it.
What we have tried so far

1.       We are using a simple two-node configuration; the machines are configured to see each other.

2.       Compiled and installed SLP 2.0, and set the broadcast address in slp.conf to observe if a registration is relayed and visible to all on both nodes.

3.       We looked at a tcpdump output, but we did not see any packets directed to the broadcast address when a service registered to SLP on one of the nodes.

                                                               i.      Query on either node for the registered service doesn't see it.

4.       We found something of interest in the patch for the issue detailed here http://sourceforge.net/p/openslp/bugs/127/.  We tried to apply it, but it is available only for SLP versions 1.2 and 1.3 .  We could not find an associated patch for 2.0 (presumably since 2.0 already has broadcast support).



Has anyone being using 2.0 successful with broadcast mode?  If you are, please share your experience.   Thank you very much.

Dave Mclellan and Radha Sekhar