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

[John Moore (Compucom Systems Inc)]

Tremayne,
Your confusion is what I have said is my long term goal has been all along.  I don't have the funding to purchase the hardware needed to make that happen at this time.  My Layer3 switch is broken down into segments already, but Its at capacity and I need another switch to add another network.  Hence the need for more funds.  That right there will run $500 for a decent used 24 port stackable cisco.  All I was looking to do was get this up an running an then purchase some hardware to implement what I want after the holiday.

I am just totally taken by surprise that MythTV cannot listen to more than 1 Network.  Which until Raymond explanation made absolutely no sense.  At this point I have given up on this.  An PLEX will be my goto answer for serving media to my networks as its proven to not be so limited.  Just means no LiveTV.  I will revisit this as MythTV develops an figures out how to deal with multiple networks.

John Moore
OSG VM Solutions Team

From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Tremayne, Steve
Sent: Friday, October 31, 2014 11:35 AM
To: Discussion about MythTV
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV needs to listen on 2 ports



From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org<mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of John Moore (Compucom Systems Inc)
Sent: 30 October 2014 19:49
To: Discussion about MythTV
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV needs to listen on 2 ports

2 subnets????

I have far more than that... lol  To fully understand my network I would need to send a viso drawning.  Think Enterprise level.  Mainly for the learning experience.  Started in college and it grew.

A DMZ where I keep all my servers VM an Physical, Parents Network, Kids Network with limited wifi, Secured Wifi specifically for guest.  An looking at adding a media network only for LiveTV.  Parents Wifi is setup with Kerberos Authentication much the same way Cisco does with Active Directory (with where I work, can guess how I learned to set that up... lol)

Local DHCP server located in DMZ with the linux Router also acting as a DHCP Relay server to redirect all dhcp request to the DHCP server in the DMZ.

Along the same with Squid Proxy an Dans Guardain.

LDAP authentication for everything.  An LDAP integrated DNS an DHCP configuration settings.

Almost all my Servers are running SLES 11sp3 with the exception of my new Media server which is Mythbuntu.

XEN Server (running SLES) hosting all of my Infrastructure server VMs.  10 in all to distribute an force myself to learn about High Availabilty an load balancing.

Lets not forget about Nagios monitoring.

Cisco 24 port 10/100 Layer 3 switch with 4 gbics an 2 additional 1G ports.  Stackable.  An broken into segments of the different networks I need.

Almost all my clients are OpenSuSE or Apple OSX.  Any Windows needs have been vitualized.  At this time no Windows VMs are needed.  WINE an CrossOver do a pretty good job.

At this time, my physical servers include HP DL360's with P4s an 2 SATA drives in a RAID 10.

Its just the dang multi media setup which is killing me.  An my lack of ability to purchase more hardware for at least another couple of months.   If my wife would not have imposed this purchasing freeze on me till after the holidays, I would be ok with moving my long term goals to now.  But I need it up an running so she can enjoy it, then sell her on why I need/want another $2k worth of infrastructure hardware.

John Moore
OSG VM Solutions Team

From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org<mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Philip Nourse
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2014 12:21 PM
To: Discussion about MythTV
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV needs to listen on 2 ports

On 30/10/2014 11:06 AM, John Moore (Compucom Systems Inc) wrote:
Morning,
I am a new user to the is group.  And ran into a brick wall trying to understand an use MythTV the way its intended in my network.  Which I will admit is a bit complex.

I am running a MythBuntu server (ver 14.04.1) running MythTV 0.27.  This server has 2 network cards on 2 different networks with static IPs set...
192.168.2.0/26 (Parents Network)
192.168.3.0/26 (Kids Network)

What I am trying to find out is if it's possible for the MythTV backend service to listen on more than 1 port.  Depending on which network I have it configured to listen too, will depend on which clients can connect.  Not just the SQL DB.  But the service which uses ports 6544 & 6543 that the clients connect to.

After using grep to look thru the entire file structure to locate where the backend setting was, I decided to install MySQL Workbench an found the backend setting in the SETTING Table in Mythconverg DB.  And it appears that since there is no Primary Key, MySQL Workbench can only open the DB in Read-Only.  Meaning I cannot make changes to it.

I am really frustrated by all this.
John Moore
OSG VM Solutions Team



OK,

  I have been watching this thread and I've got to admit that I'm quite confused.

  With all that network hardware, why not put the media server on its own network and then route between parent and child networks? You could always use VLANs - the layer 3 switch would be your router between different VLANs.

  And with in-bound ACLs in the layer 3 switch, that's probably more secure than having a dual-homed device.

  The media server's firewall (iptables) can also be used to further block access.

  That gives you a single IP address using the technology that you're already comfortable with, less network cabling and a more secure network.

  Regarding the backend settings, have a look at /home/<mythusername>/.mythtv/config.xml - the backend settings are in there.

Cheers,

Steve
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