Firefly on NSLU2

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  • 05/01/2007 at 11:55 AM #960
    pankaj
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    Hello,

    My setup consists of two Soundbridges, and two servers – one is an
    WinXp machine running Firefly 1.0 and the other is NSLU2 running the
    latest Firelynightly. Both soundbridges can see the XP server (wirelessly)
    but can not see the NSLU2 server. I’ve had this problem since I have had
    to replace my buffalo wireless router/modem with a Netgear one so I
    suspect this is a router issue.

    I know the firefly server is running on the NSLU2 as I can access its
    web configuration page from the PC. I can also ping both soundbridges
    from the NSLU2 so I am puzzled as to why they cannot connect to the
    Firefly server on it. Please let me know if there is any other information
    I can supply to diagnose the problem.

    Best regards,
    Pankaj

    05/01/2007 at 5:10 PM #8247
    fizze
    Participant

    Multicast/Unicast traffic is likely blocked from the NSLU2.
    I believe firefly announces itself via UDP port 5353 to 224.0.0.something

    The exact settings to get firefly to work through a firewall have been discussed here in the forums already.
    A search will definetely turn up useful results.

    06/01/2007 at 2:26 AM #8248
    rpedde
    Participant

    @pankaj wrote:

    I’ve had this problem since I have had
    to replace my buffalo wireless router/modem with a Netgear one so I
    suspect this is a router issue.

    That sounds like the case. It’s one of two things — either the router has multicast disabled by default, or the router doesn’t do multicast at all.

    There may be an option in the web admin for the router to “enable multicast”, or to “enable IGMP”. If there is, enable it, and it should come right up.

    If not, then it’s possible that the router just won’t pass the multicast. Is it too late to swap the buffalo for another model? On the Roku site is a list of the models that work well.

    06/01/2007 at 11:44 AM #8249
    pankaj
    Participant

    Hi,

    Thank you for your replies. After further investigation, I have found
    out that it is indeed a problem with the firmware version on the Netgear
    DG834 router that I have.

    Apparently, multicast is enabled only for wireless to wireless or
    wired to wired connection on this router. It is NOT enabled for wireless to
    wired or wired to wireless connection. So in my setup, the Soundbriges
    which are connected wirelessly to the router, can see the server on the PC
    which is also wirelessly connected to the router but cannot see the server
    on the NSLU2 which is wired directly to the router. This issue has been
    raised on the Netgear forums so hopefully it will be fixed by them.
    (see http://forum1.netgear.com/showthread.php?t=1212 )

    Also, I would like to thank you for the what I have found to be
    the best media server for the Roku Soundbridges. I am particularly
    impressed with the speed, reliability and the ease of use of the server.
    Keep up the good work !!

    Regards,
    Pankaj

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