I think you are asking whether the SB2 can be used as a Wireless Access
Point to access your server.
There are a number of threads on this forum dealing with this, and the
bottom line is that the SB2/3 can not be used as a WAP.
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Ramage
P2 266MHz,Linux ClarkConnect 3.2, SlimServer Version:
Thanks
I had searched but most of what I'd found dealt with using the SB as a
bridge and I couldn't find anything quite as specific as I wanted.
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Puggie
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I want to be able to do a rsync between 2 servers to keep their music
folders identical (I will update the main server then rsync to the
secondary server). I want to access the secondary server using the SB2
as its wireless connection.
does that make sense?
to expand the application a little, th
Your intentions are now a little clearer.
I think you will be able to do what you want, as the SB2 will connect
the server in the car to your wireless network in the house and the
second server.
Quite a novel project.
Good luck
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Ramage
P2 266MHz,Linux ClarkConnect 3.2, SlimServer Versio
Cool! I'm trying to set up a single server for home with all my music
stored as FLAC to retire my cd collection, I can then access this from
anywhere in the house (and work), all my music at the touch of a
button. I then want to duplicate this in the car so I have all my music
available there too
Just to test the feasibility of your proposal I set up the following:
* NSLU NAS+Slimserver connected to SB3 with crossover ethernet cable
* Set up wireless bridge to my main network.
Entered all required IP addresses for my network and it worked
perfectly.
I am able to connect the SB directly
Ramage;172228 Wrote:
> Just to test the feasibility of your proposal I set up the following:
>
> * NSLU NAS+Slimserver connected to SB3 with crossover ethernet cable
> * Set up wireless bridge to my main network.
>
> Entered all required IP addresses for my network and it worked
> perfectly.
>
Peter;172348 Wrote:
> Perhaps someone changed the squeezebox firmware to allow this. If Ramage
>
> wants to make sure the traffic between the SB and the slimserver is not
>
> going over the wireless interface (twice) he could try switching off
> the
> WAP. If it still works then the traffic ob
Mark Lanctot;172337 Wrote:
> I'm amazed this all works?
>
> Because this is a convoluted wireless arrangement. Say the SB3 wants
> to send something to SlimServer. It can't do this over its crossover
> cable because you've told it to use the wireless interface and bridge
> the Ethernet port.
seanadams;172362 Wrote:
> That is not what should happen at all. When the SB3 is operating in
> bridging mode, it keeps track of who is on the ethernet side and who is
> on the wireless side - it knows where to send a packet.
>
> Telling it to connect wirelessly just means that you want to conf
I did check my test setup with the wireless access point disabled and
the NSLU slimserver continued to work with the SB3 over the wired xover
cable. When the wireless link was restored, access from the PC to the
NSLU was restored.
I was quite impressed by the functionality, confirmed by Sean.
G
Peter;172381 Wrote:
> Sean, wouldn't that also imply that an SB running in bridge mode could
> function as a poor man's access point by connecting to a wireless PC in
>
> ad-hoc mode?
>
> Regards,
> Peter
I think you're right, but that it would be quite an interesting poor
man who has a squee
Peter;172380 Wrote:
> I hope you have now learned to never underestimate a SqueezeBox, Marc!
> ;)
Most definitely. What's interesting about this is that this is above
and beyond what is required. The Squeezebox operating in bridge mode
really doesn't need to check if there are any packets dest
Peter;172405 Wrote:
> azinck3 wrote:
> > Peter;172381 Wrote:
> >
> >> Sean, wouldn't that also imply that an SB running in bridge mode
> could
> >> function as a poor man's access point by connecting to a wireless PC
> in
> >>
> >> ad-hoc mode?
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Peter
> >>
> >
> >
Peter;172381 Wrote:
>
> Sean, wouldn't that also imply that an SB running in bridge mode could
>
> function as a poor man's access point by connecting to a wireless PC in
>
> ad-hoc mode?
Yes it can. In fact you can even connect two Squeezeboxes to each other
in ad-hoc mode with bridging enab
sounds great guys, once I have re-read this thread a few times and
absorbed the content properly I should know exactly what its capable
of. For this project its more a case of I'll have a SB2 there and will
occasionally need a wireless bridge so it would save both cash and
equipment if the SB2 wou
seanadams;172362 Wrote:
> That is not what should happen at all. When the SB3 is operating in
> bridging mode, it keeps track of who is on the ethernet side and who is
> on the wireless side - it knows where to send a packet.
>
Sean,
If I may say as a guy who does IP networking for a living,
Mark Lanctot;172391 Wrote:
> About the only drawback to this arrangement is if you have another
> Squeezebox on the wireless portion because it'll be a 2-hop arrangement
> - which isn't a problem for some people though.
Mark,
Some points that I hope are not already clear but hopefully address a
Eric Carroll;173946 Wrote:
> If you were going multiple times over the same wireless network, that
> would be an issue, but that is not what is happening in this example.
Hmm? I thought it was?
NAS (SlimServer) - SB (acting as bridge) to router, one wireless hop.
Router/AP to another SB, wire
Ah, my apologies. By router you mean Wireless Access Point, which can be
a router or a bridge. Mine happens to be a bridge so I thought you meant
a different topology. My bad I didn't read carefully enough.
In the case you are talking about looks like this?
SlimServer - SB(bridge) - Wireless - W
Mark Lanctot;173957 Wrote:
> Hmm? I thought it was?
>
> NAS (SlimServer) - SB (acting as bridge) to router, one wireless hop.
>
> Router/AP to another SB, wireless, 2nd wireless hop.
>
Well, my bad, that will teach me to respond without reading more
carefully, and I know better. Sorry.
"rou
Just going back to the orignal reason the poster asked this question, a
car based Slimserver.
Has anyone got experience of runing a hard-drive continuously in a
car.
I'd have thought the constant shocks would dramatically shorten the
lifespan of a HD. The roads in this country vary from good moto
Strange, I'm on my 2nd hard drive in the laptop I've had for < 2yrs. And
I consider my self careful. It spends most of it's life on my, in
hibernation or fairly stable on my lap.
And the laptop has those sensors which detect movement and tell the
drive to spin down.
The 2nd drive was installed i
Eric Carroll;173946 Wrote:
>
> The simple fact is that the cut through time (time from first bit in to
> first bit out with no queueing delay) on a two port bridge (which is
> what the SB3 is) is measured in microseconds.
I think that could only be true of an hardware ethernet switch (in
silic
seanadams;174097 Wrote:
> One thing that is interesting about the Ubicom platform we use is that
> they implement the ethernet MAC in software.
I assumed you used a Ethernet MAC chipset, which are relatively cheap
these days and can do hardware cut through, but software is even less
expensive.
Since I happen to have a shielded RF test enclosure in front of me with
an access point and a Squeezebox in it, here are the actual numbers. I
have the computer wired directly to the squeezebox, and squeezebox
connecting to the access point with bridging enabled.
First, ping the Squeezebox direct
Very nifty! And I guessed 24 Mb/s with no measurement, no data and just
a virtual napkin...
This is getting to be too much like work. :-) I think I will go listen
to my Transporter :-)
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Eric Carroll
Transporter-Bryston 3B SST-Paradigm Reference Studio 60 v.4
SB3-Rotel RB890-B&W Matrix 805
Ramage wrote:
I think you are asking whether the SB2 can be used as a Wireless Access
Point to access your server.
Not necessarily. Perhaps he wants his server to access the access point
through the SB3. Unusual solution but it might well work.
Regards,
Peter
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Puggie wrote:
Cool! I'm trying to set up a single server for home with all my music
stored as FLAC to retire my cd collection, I can then access this from
anywhere in the house (and work), all my music at the touch of a
button. I then want to duplicate this in the car so I have all my music
avail
Ramage wrote:
Just to test the feasibility of your proposal I set up the following:
* NSLU NAS+Slimserver connected to SB3 with crossover ethernet cable
* Set up wireless bridge to my main network.
Entered all required IP addresses for my network and it worked
perfectly.
I am able to connect t
Mark Lanctot wrote:
Ramage;172228 Wrote:
Just to test the feasibility of your proposal I set up the following:
* NSLU NAS+Slimserver connected to SB3 with crossover ethernet cable
* Set up wireless bridge to my main network.
Entered all required IP addresses for my network and it worked
per
Mark Lanctot wrote:
seanadams;172362 Wrote:
That is not what should happen at all. When the SB3 is operating in
bridging mode, it keeps track of who is on the ethernet side and who is
on the wireless side - it knows where to send a packet.
Telling it to connect wirelessly just means that y
seanadams wrote:
Mark Lanctot;172337 Wrote:
I'm amazed this all works?
Because this is a convoluted wireless arrangement. Say the SB3 wants
to send something to SlimServer. It can't do this over its crossover
cable because you've told it to use the wireless interface and bridge
the Etherne
azinck3 wrote:
Peter;172381 Wrote:
Sean, wouldn't that also imply that an SB running in bridge mode could
function as a poor man's access point by connecting to a wireless PC in
ad-hoc mode?
Regards,
Peter
I think you're right, but that it would be quite an interesting poor
man who
azinck3 wrote:
Peter;172405 Wrote:
azinck3 wrote:
Peter;172381 Wrote:
Sean, wouldn't that also imply that an SB running in bridge mode
could
function as a poor man's access point by connecting to a wireless PC
in
ad-hoc mode?
Regards,
Peter
oreillymj wrote:
Just going back to the orignal reason the poster asked this question, a
car based Slimserver.
Has anyone got experience of runing a hard-drive continuously in a
car.
I'd have thought the constant shocks would dramatically shorten the
lifespan of a HD. The roads in this country v
oreillymj wrote:
Strange, I'm on my 2nd hard drive in the laptop I've had for < 2yrs. And
I consider my self careful. It spends most of it's life on my, in
hibernation or fairly stable on my lap.
And the laptop has those sensors which detect movement and tell the
drive to spin down.
The 2nd dri
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