[pulseaudio-discuss] RTP sink with two interfaces

[Lennart Poettering]

On Sun, 20.01.08 01:37, Matt Feifarek (matt.feifarek at gmail.com) wrote:

> Hello.
> 
> Avahi has the neat feature "reflector" which can catch mDNS on one
> interface and fling it out on another. In my case, I have a wired LAN
> and a wireless LAN connected to the same firewall/router box.
> 
> Of course, this works for PulseAudio; the Avahi notifications show up
> on both sides, but it seems that streaming RTP can only be one or the
> other. This makes sense, unless a multicast-able router exists.
> 
> It seems that both of the possible software projects that might fill
> this need are old or dead; pimd and mrouted. As it it, I have to have
> a static route to point packets to 224.0.0.0/4 in the right direction
> to get anything to work on my wired lan.
> 
> Is there a clever work-around with current modules, or perhaps plans
> for a pulseaudio module that works similarly to the Avahi-reflector?

There's no need to have this inside PA. A small, dumb mcast reflector should
be doable in < 50 lines. Get the Stevens and start hacking!

Setting up static routes for the two mcast groups is however probably
still the easier way to achieve what you are asking for.

Lennart

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