maweber wrote: 
> yes basically it works. i cannot tell about speed because lossless i
> only tested with the pi on ethernet.
> but with good wifi... maybe.
> but to let the pi give itself an ip you need to aim a bit at a range, so
> it is not used by dhcp.
> of course you can autodetect free ips, but can be tricky in different
> locations, when you're on the road.
> another downside is I didnt manage to advertise LMS on the radio side.
> It seems that broadcast protocoll is so ancient...
> tweaked avahi db into it, just nothing happened.
I'm used to setting up Ovpn, but I admit I don't use it to extend the
reach of my LMS server.
However, I can safely say that if you use an "old style", kernel-level
bridging setup for openvpn (ie: define your own tap and plug it in your
own bridge before openvpn starts), broadcasts work absolutely fine.
Anything goes through. 
(It even becomes a bit of a problem if you want to allocate IPs via a
local DHCP server: you have to filter lease offers from the remote DHCP
server across the bridge to avoid them reaching local clients...)

You can bridge in site-to-site mode with perfectly good results even
over a thin pipe. Rumors of broadcasts eating up all the bandwidth are
greatly exaggerated.
Put a wifi card in the Pi, add the interface to the bridge, run hostapd
and your local players will be fine.



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