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Communicating With Two Machines With ROS2

asked 2022-03-31 09:06:21 -0500

Jacob G.
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updated 2022-03-31 09:07:26 -0500

I'm trying to start up communication between two machines running ROS2 Galactic using the examples:

ros2 run demo_nodes_cpp talker

and

ros2 run demo_nodes_cpp listener

Both machines are on the same network,
Both machines have multicasting enabled
Both machines can ping each other
Both machines have the same netmask
I have also tried running the examples on different networks with no success
Both machines have "export ROS_DOMAIN_ID=30" in their .bashrc

When running the two example nodes on the same machine everything works fine.

Please tell if you need any more info.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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answered 2022-04-13 03:42:59 -0500

Jacob G.
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Thanks a lot for the answer! I tried out the different RMWs but nothing seemed to work. Those things didn't fix it for me.

Instead the problem was solved by: 1. Switching to a different network. (I was on a network with extra security layers that might have messed with the communication). 2. The firewall on my two machines were blocking the communication. - As a quick fix you can disable firewall by using the following command:

sudo ufw disable

You can check the status of your firewall do typing:

sudo ufw status

It is not recommended to have your firewall disabled at all times however, so only use this as a way to test if it is the firewall that is the problem.

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Hello, Is there a way to keep the firewall on and to configure the network to allow the topics to pass ?

Sam_Prt ( 2022-10-11 03:38:35 -0500 )edit

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answered 2022-03-31 10:04:08 -0500

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Which RMW implementation do you use?

I got better results with Fast RTPS on 2 AWS instances for connecting nodes and their topics. There is more documentation about its configuration too.

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