On Wednesday 02 July 2014 04:45:02 pm Rob Landry wrote: > That's weird; are you running audio files from a local drive, or from one > elsewhere on the network? > > If I were running Rivendell in a way that doesn't touch the network, i.e. > audio from a local drive now/next (if any) to a local serial port, I > wouldn't expect rdairplay to care if the network is misconfigured.
Remember, Linux is a UNIX derivative ! UNIX is at its heart and soul a multi-user multi-tasking network based OS. It talks to *itself* across the network. That's where the reserved 127.x.x.x block comes from. As far as the OS is concerned, it's *always* on a network. Windows OTOH is at it's heart and soul a single user, single tasking, stand-alone video game. The considerations for each are very different. It's possible to glom networking onto windows, as M$ has done, and make windows do some things across a network. ( the OS itself is still local machine based ) It's possible to write *nix programs that pass messages by some means other than the loopback, as is done in some embedded systems. It's even possible to write a kernel that doesn't use the network, but at it's core it's still a network derived OS. Since most of us are using off the shelf OS of some sort, for our purposes all of linux is network aware, so the network must be configured correctly, or at least close. -- Cowboy http://cowboy.cwf1.com God isn't dead, he just couldn't find a parking place. _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
