How to install avahi on pfsense embedded?

eweri · Dec 18, 2007, 8:56 AM

Hello!

I want to use avahi with pfsense (embedded with alix2c3) and I want to announce the WebGUI and ssh on the LAN (maybe more later).
I´ve downloaded the required packages from http://www.pfsense.com/packages/All/ but it seems that avahi crashes after a few seconds/minutes. The packages are pretty old at that link, maybe thats the problem?

If i try to install the standard package with "pkg_add -r avahi" it wants to install a whole bunch of packages that I really do not need. I just need the avahi-daemon and some configs thats all.

Every hint is welcome, bye,
eweri

P.S. Just want to tell that I can see and connect to the services - sometimes not always - and how can I restrict this to the LAN port?

sullrich · Dec 18, 2007, 6:23 PM

Packages are not supported on embedded platform.

eweri · Dec 19, 2007, 7:29 AM

@sullrich:

Packages are not supported on embedded platform.

I know, but it works flawlessly, I installed bash and curl because I have some shell-scripts I want to run that use bash and curl. But avahi is another thing :-)

Okay what do others think about mDNS, Zeroconf or Rendevous/Bonjour? I want to use this in MacOS X LANs.

Bye,
eweri

Guest · Jan 10, 2008, 5:19 PM

What part of "not supported" was unclear for you?