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OpenSUSE multicast not working?

I'm trying to do multicast dns on OpenSuSE through a trusted java applet<->, and my attempts to find anything on the network are silently blocked! What could be the problem?

Solution

  • OpenSUSE won't tell you during installation, but it enabled a firewall by default that will block multicast operations. You will have to disable the two firewall services to get multicast working properly, namely

    SuSEfirewall2_setup

    and

    SuSEfirewall2_init