[Sugar-devel] Local Collaboration with an ethernet bug 1113

[Daniel Drake]

2009/8/3 Caroline Meeks <caroline at solutiongrove.com>:
> Please point me to the documentation a sysadmin would need to read to know
> how to set up local collaboration and how it works.

Without a jabber server, it is designed to "just work" with no configuration.
It uses multicast apple-style zeroconf through avahi.

Some first things you could try:
 1. check that the machines are on the same IPv4 subnet
 2. see if they can see each other with avahi (avahi-browse, avahi-publish, etc)
 3. see if you can get any multicast transmission between the machines
at all, using something low-level e.g.
http://www.venaas.no/multicast/ssmping/

Daniel