[mythtv-users] MythTV needs to listen on 2 ports

Jon Heizer jheizer at gmail.com
Thu Oct 30 17:03:33 UTC 2014


On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 11:51 AM, John Moore (Compucom Systems Inc) <
v-johmo at microsoft.com> wrote:

> Then I guess there is nothing more to say on this.  The idea of the master
> backend can only have 1 IP is kind of limiting an short sided.  Especially
> since other services such as PLEX an XBMC  can listen on ALL network cards
> right after install.
>
> For security reason, I can not an will not allow traffic to be forwarded
> thru the firewall.  I will drop MythTV before I do this.  The only thing
> PLEX couldn't do was live tv against my HDHR tuner.
>
> What about slave backend server.  I was trying to avoid buying more
> hardware.  May use VM's.
>
> Lets say I isolate the mythtv server on a 3rd network an a slave backend
> is attached to network 1 an network 3.  With the slave backend configured
> to listen to Network 1 an pointing it too the MASTER on the third network,
> where is the transcoding workload kept during streaming of live tv?
>
> John Moore
> OSG VM Solutions Team


1. Hahaha This whole conversation makes me laugh.
2. How is forwarding a single port to an application cross subnets any
different in terms of security than an application actively listening ALL?
3. No top posting

Jon
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