[Sugar-devel] Fwd: [Bug 419240] [NEW] Need instructions on how to set up a cluster of computers so they collaborate.

[Gary C Martin]

On 1 Sep 2009, at 20:35, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote:

> Gary C Martin wrote:
>> On 1 Sep 2009, at 20:20, Sascha Silbe wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 02:57:57PM -0400, Mike Lee wrote:
>>>
>>>> As I said in another email, I've tested the Linksys 5-port
>>>> Workgroup Switch
>>>> with no luck.
>>> I don't think it has got anything to do with the switch.
>>> Collaboration is known to have some bugs.
>>
>> FWIW: All my testing has been done over wireless, so no wired results
>> to report. I do have a switch and 2 machines so I might be able to
>> test over ethernet and see if I can reproduce the issue here.
>
> That would be good.  Even a crossover cable between two machines  
> would be
> enough to test the system.

Yep thanks, wires are with a friend, will be a few days before I can  
test here, will give that route a test as well as a fallback if the  
switch is not playing well.

> My current best diagnosis is that the dhcpcd on Strawberry has somehow
> been configured without zeroconf, so it does not acquire a link-local
> address and bring up the interface in the absence of a DHCP server.  I
> freely admit, though, that this diagnosis doesn't make a lot of sense,
> because Fedora has generally embraced zeroconf and Avahi, and  
> there's no
> reason Strawberry should be different from stock Fedora in this  
> regard.

Yea, I'm not clear also on where the issue lies, hopefully  
reproduction of the failure in a test environment will push us in the  
right direction (sorry I can't do this right now) :-)

Regards,
--Gary