I feel like this question must have been asked before, probably more than once, but I can't seem to come up with a good search result. The short version is that I have a device with a touchscreen running LMS, squeezelite, and jivelite. It needs to be able to operate normally with no network interfaces up. And I don't mean just no internet, I mean all interfaces down.
I've dicked around with it most of the weekend and so far the only working solution I've had is to assign a static IP to an interface (eth0), manually bring it up and then add a default route (which isn't reachable because there's no physical link). In this config, all 3 pieces of software worked as expected, even find_servers immediately found the locally running LMS. The problem is that I don't really want it like this, The physical interface(s) need to be able to change state, eg. up/down, connected to my home wifi or wired lan, connected to my phone hotspot, etc. all via DHCP. LMS, jivelite and squeezelite need to be unaffected by anything happening on the outbound interface(s). When I don't have a manually configured static IP and gateway (with no ethernet cable connected) LMS starts but is really slow to respond in the browser. Squeezelite won't autodiscover, I have to specify a connection IP. Jivelite starts but doesn't connect to a server, even when I manually add a remote library using the local static ip or 127.0.0.1, it won't connect. As soon as I put a static IP on an interface, set it to up, AND add a default gateway IP, everything starts working, even if nothing external is reachable due to the cable being unplugged. I setup a working separate network namespace (this is on linux) thinking I'd just run LMS/squeezelite/jivelite all in a separate net namespace and that would solve everything, even it adds complexity to the setup. I got it all working but it's acting just like it was when all interfaces were down and unconfigured. Can anyone provide any hints or forum links for standalone disconnected setups? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ sodface's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19057 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=115923 _______________________________________________ Squeezecenter mailing list Squeezecenter@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
