[mythtv-users] Backend listening on multiple NICs?

Mike Jochen mjjochen at gmail.com
Thu May 29 02:27:20 UTC 2008


On May 28, 2008, at 7:21 AM, Ian Clark wrote:

> What happens if you specify the IP address in the myth-setup as  
> 0.0.0.0


Hmmm... Haven't tried that. Will give it a whirl to see what happens.


> Could you use some kind of port forwarding? pf under *BSD would be  
> able to do this? I'm assuming you can do this with something like  
> iptables under linux??


That's what I have going on now, I forward from the one net to the  
other using iptables and it does get the job done.  -m


> 2008/5/28 Mike Jochen <mjjochen at gmail.com>:
>
> On May 24, 2008, at 12:44 PM, Brian Foddy wrote:
>
> > On Saturday 24 May 2008, Mike Jochen wrote:
> >> I have a backend with one tuner setup that I would like to  
> listen on
> >> more than one network interface. What would be the best way to go
> >> about doing that? Any suggestions? Thanks in advance! -mike
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> > I don't know there is a simple way.  Are you trying to do this for
> > network balancing, or for network security / layout reasons?
> > If its just balancing, I'd beef up the primary and go with just
> > one interface.
>
>
> I have a front end on a laptop which is connected via hardwire and
> wireless, depending on where I am sitting. I keep those two mediums
> as separate networks because I treat the wireless a little
> differently in terms of security.
>
>
> > One "possible" way is to use some of the linux network trickery
> > to essentially port forward one of the nic ports onto another,
> > where the real backend listens.  I haven't thought this through
> > very carefully, but between the firewall port forwarding and
> > route2 tricks, you might be able to get all the packets where
> > they need to go.  Something to think about anyway.
>
>
> That's kind of what I thought, just wasn't sure if there was any
> other way. Kinda like with the mysql database - if you  specify which
> interface you want to listen on, you can only give it one interface,
> otherwise, you just let it listen on all (in the mysql config) and
> have to block the ones you don't want it listening on via the
> firewall... Thanks for the help. -m


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