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PS3 fails to see DLNA without ReadyNAS reboot
Hi all, I've found various threads on this issue but no solution so I'm hoping there's an answer that I've just missed. When first switched on, my Playstation 3 is only able to see the NAS drive th...
thomsens wrote: I'm very knowledgeable about networking, so enlighten me if you have ideas of why that might change things.
The way discovery is done in the DLNA (and UPnP) world is with UDP multicast, which of course can be lossy. When the DLNA client starts, it sends an M-SEARCH packet asking for responses from media servers on the network. That piece is certainly working in ReadyDLNA, as evidenced by passing all UPnP and DLNA tests, and by the thousands of systems around the world that don't have this problem. So the only possibility that makes sense is that those search packets being sent by the client (PS3 in this case) aren't making it to the ReadyNAS.
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