[Live-devel] multiple network ports

[Jim Ham]

On 8/6/2020 6:07 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
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>> On Aug 7, 2020, at 12:56 PM, Jim Ham <jimham at porcine.com> wrote:
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>> I have a firewall box that I'd like to also act as a streaming server. It has two network ports. Can I tell live555MediaServer to serve a selected port? Or perhaps both ports? So far I've only gotten it to serve the internal network, not the external one.
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> First, I assume that you mean “IP address”, rather than “port”.  (But if you really meant “port”, then you could specify this by including it in the “rtsp://“ URL.)
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> By default, the server uses the network interface that’s used for IP multicast routing - i.e., the one that has a route for 224.0.0.0/4.  (The reason for this is that it uses IP multicast to detect its own IP address.)
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> So, the easiest way to choose a particular network interface is to reconfigure your host so that it uses that network interface for IP multicast routing.  You should be able to do this by running (as root):
> 	route add 224.0.0.0/4 ip-address-for-that-nic
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> Alternatively, you could try adding - as the first statements in your “main()” routine, the following:
> 	SendingInterfaceAddr = ReceivingInterfaceAddr = our_inet_addr(“x.y.z.w”);
> where “x.y.z.w” is the IP address of the interface that you want.

OK, this works. Thanks for the tip. I just added the network address as 
a command line argument.

Jim Ham

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> Ross Finlayson
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