Only loopback works for Cyclone DDS, no multicast

asked 2021-10-27 01:09:14 -0500

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We have a bunch of very similar machines running Ubuntu 20.04 with Galactic in Ubuntu 20.04 Docker; all others work fine, but mine doesn't. With <NetworkInterfaceAddress>lo</NetworkInterfaceAddress>, ros2 doctor --report from inside Docker shows me this (skipping all but networks are the other bits are identical):

1635311346.774983 [0]       ros2: selected interface "lo" is not multicast-capable: disabling multicast
1635311346.774983 [0]       ros2: selected interface "lo" is not multicast-capable: disabling multicast
1635311347.624827 [0]       ros2: selected interface "lo" is not multicast-capable: disabling multicast
1635311347.624827 [0]       ros2: selected interface "lo" is not multicast-capable: disabling multicast

   NETWORK CONFIGURATION
inet         : 172.17.0.1
inet4        : ['172.17.0.1']
ether        : **private**
netmask      : 255.255.0.0
device       : docker0
flags        : 4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST> 
mtu          : 1500
broadcast    : 172.17.255.255

inet         : 10.208.6.84
inet4        : ['10.208.6.84']
ether        : **private**
netmask      : 255.255.255.0
device       : enp4s0f2
flags        : 4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> 
mtu          : 1500
broadcast    : 10.208.6.255

inet         : 127.0.0.1
inet4        : ['127.0.0.1']
netmask      : 255.0.0.0
device       : lo
flags        : 73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> 
mtu          : 65536
ether        : **private**
device       : wlp5s0
flags        : 4098<BROADCAST,MULTICAST> 
mtu          : 1500

If I change to <NetworkInterfaceAddress>auto</NetworkInterfaceAddress>, I get:

1635313433.420512 [0]       ros2: using network interface enp4s0f2 (udp/10.208.6.84) selected arbitrarily from: enp4s0f2, docker0
1635313433.420512 [0]       ros2: using network interface enp4s0f2 (udp/10.208.6.84) selected arbitrarily from: enp4s0f2, docker0

And then it hangs - Ctrl+C doesn't work, but Ctrl-Z then kill -9 %1 does. Of course, all other ROS2 features that require multicast fail, so what network issue should I be looking at?