I have 5 Squeezeboxes in my home, 2 Classics, 2 Duets, and one Boom. Since I use all flac files in my library and I often sync 2-3 or more SBs, I've had problems with wifi choking on the bandwidth -- so I'm using ethernet to connect all my SBs to my LAN. There's just one problem (isn't that always so!): One SB is on my screen porch, an area where I don't have much control over physical access. I don't want an open connection to my LAN out on the screen porch. (And if someone thinks I'm going extreme wiring my house for CAT5e for SBs, all the connections were planned for possible other devices as well.)
I can solve the problem of having a connection on the porch by running it through a router that I'm using for something else. My idea was to have the porch SB connect to the WAN side of the router and on the other side is my LAN with Squeezecenter and all the other SBs (and my other computers). My LAN is in the 172.16.7.xxx address range. I was setting up the WAN interface on the router with address 10.0.0.101 and specifically told the SB to use the address 10.0.0.201. I told the SB the gateway was 10.0.0.101. In the router's firewall I forwarded all attempts to reach 172.16.7.2 (the Squeezecenter address) from the WAN to that computer on the LAN side, so, supposedly, if the SB tries to access port 9000 at 172.16.7.2, it should go through the gateway, or the WAN interface on the router, then be forwarded to my server with Squeezecenter. Of course, since I'm posting, you can tell it doesn't work. The hard part is I don't know if the router (running OpenWRT) is not working or the SB is not working. I do see that when I check the router firewall logs, there is NOTHING showing any connection attempts on the WAN side, which is where ONLY the SB is. >From what I've read, if I set the router to forward ports 3483 and 9000 to the server running Squeezecenter, it should work, but there's no indication it does, and no indication of any traffic going through the router. I know this could be a router issue OR an SB issue and I'm not sure which. I've also posted on the OpenWRT site asking for help (lots of views on that topic, no responses). So I've got two questions: 1) Any ideas what I can do or need to change to get the SB to talk to Squeezecenter through this firewall? 2) With this SB on a different net, can the Duet controller still control it? What would that take? Thanks for any help or insight on this. -- HalNineThousand ------------------------------------------------------------------------ HalNineThousand's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12392 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62565 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
