[ROS2] Two machines are in same network but can't communicate in ROS2 [closed]

asked 2019-08-16 17:25:13 -0500

ahtsan gravatar image

They can ping each other, but nodes in both machines cannot talk to each other. Topics being published are not seen by another machine too.

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close date 2020-07-27 18:10:15.132535

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Did you set the same ROS_DOMAIN_ID for both machines?

surfertas gravatar image surfertas  ( 2019-08-18 08:06:32 -0500 )edit

A lot of people have gotten similar weirdness with fastRTPS as their dds implementation. If you are using that, I recommend switching to opensplice and seeing if your issue continues to reproduce.

johnconn gravatar image johnconn  ( 2019-08-18 10:43:28 -0500 )edit

Is it possible UDP multicast is disabled in the network? How can I check that? If so, is there a way to do it differently? I saw something like unicast and specifying ops in a XML file.

ahtsan gravatar image ahtsan  ( 2019-08-18 10:45:30 -0500 )edit

I modify opensplice settings here: /opt/ros/dashing/share/opensplice_cmake_module/config/ros_ospl.xml

but I don't know how to configure other impls

the folks here mentioned problems with multicast: https://blog.roverrobotics.com/ros-2-...

johnconn gravatar image johnconn  ( 2019-08-18 10:58:32 -0500 )edit

I think it's not the issue of ROS_DOMAIN_ID since it works under the ethernet but right after switching to the wifi it doesn't.

ahtsan gravatar image ahtsan  ( 2019-08-18 11:01:32 -0500 )edit
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That sounds a lot like your traffic is being blocked on the wifi or it's still trying to route through the ethernet that was just unplugged.

tfoote gravatar image tfoote  ( 2019-08-20 16:52:23 -0500 )edit
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