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nolme
Mar 13, 2014Aspirant
SRX5308 - DLNA multicast over VLAN
Hi, I'm modifying my network to split home & pro networks. When all was on the same subnet, all was OK. Today we have : Pro : 172.20.0.0/16 on port 1 of the SRX5308 home : 172.21.0.0/24 on po...
nolme
Mar 13, 2014Aspirant
Hi,
I think you're right. I've seen this from another website (http://www.avsforum.com/t/1252633/dlna-server-on-different-subnet-through-router) :
"Your problem is that uPnP uses multicasting for discovery, but your routers do not support multicasting, so your devices can only find other devices on the same network. The broadcast domain for the multicast announcements is being restricted to a single subnet, because your router(s) don't know how to forward the multicasts to the other attached network(s)."
So the question is : will the SRX5308 be able to multicast...
I think you're right. I've seen this from another website (http://www.avsforum.com/t/1252633/dlna-server-on-different-subnet-through-router) :
"Your problem is that uPnP uses multicasting for discovery, but your routers do not support multicasting, so your devices can only find other devices on the same network. The broadcast domain for the multicast announcements is being restricted to a single subnet, because your router(s) don't know how to forward the multicasts to the other attached network(s)."
So the question is : will the SRX5308 be able to multicast...
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