Hi Martin. The patch link was embedded later into the email :: <a href="http://people.sugarlabs.org/ajay/root/freedesktop_bug_51501/common-patch-for-f14-and-f17/customize-avahi-default-ttl-values.patch">http://people.sugarlabs.org/ajay/root/freedesktop_bug_51501/common-patch-for-f14-and-f17/customize-avahi-default-ttl-values.patch</a> Also, updating the tickets with the patch.. (sorry about not doing that before..). Also, the details are like this :: a) The patch is applied to Avahi, and the patched (avahi) rpms upgraded. The (required 6) pre-compiled rpms are present at :: <a class="external" href="http://people.sugarlabs.org/ajay/root/freedesktop_bug_51501/platforms/f14/RPMS/">http://people.sugarlabs.org/ajay/root/freedesktop_bug_51501/platforms/f14/RPMS/</a> <a class="external" href="http://people.sugarlabs.org/ajay/root/freedesktop_bug_51501/platforms/f17/RPMS/">http://people.sugarlabs.org/ajay/root/freedesktop_bug_51501/platforms/f17/RPMS/</a> b) This patch IS responsible for adding two files to "/etc/avahi" :: * "/etc/avahi/avahi-default-ttl.conf" * "/etc/avahi/avahi-default-ttl-host-name.conf" c) As per the usecase, the XO-2 disapplears from XO-1's neighborhood view, after the number of seconds specified in the file "/etc/avahi/avahi-default-ttl.conf". d) I was not able to any "observable" difference between the two "#defines" - AVAH-DEFAULT-TTL, and AVAHI-DEFAULT-TTL-HOST-NAME. So, for all purposes, they may be configured the same value (via the two "conf" files). e) Actually specifying the values in the two conf files, would have to be done at the OOB stage (as correctly identified by Martin). A value of about 20 seconds (for each) would be good. Thanks and Regards, Ajay <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 7:56 PM, Martin Langhoff <<a href="mailto:martin.langhoff@gmail.com" target="_blank">martin.langhoff@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Ajay Garg <<a href="mailto:ajay@activitycentral.com">ajay@activitycentral.com</a>> wrote: > I have written a patch for "Avahi", that solves the bugs > > [UPSTREAM] <a href="http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/3748" target="_blank">http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/3748</a> > [DOWNSTREAM] <a href="http://dev.laptop.org.au/issues/1332" target="_blank">http://dev.laptop.org.au/issues/1332</a> </div>Thanks for working on this. Neither link has a patch. Where is the patch, as a text file? Reading the description, first you talk about a patch to avahi, but then you say it's configurable via files in /etc, so I'd expect a patch to OOB. If it is tweakable from telepathy or Sugar, then maybe a patch to Sugar, where it sets up the properties of the telepathy connection...? cheers, m -- <a href="mailto:martin.langhoff@gmail.com">martin.langhoff@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:martin@laptop.org">martin@laptop.org</a> -- Software Architect - OLPC - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff</a> </blockquote></div>