Another broken networking variant: Score - OS X and BSD: 3, SB3: 0

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I've been struggling for days now to get my SB3 to work reliably. I stripped my network way down to get the SB3 working yesterday and it was able to properly connect via wireless (802.11g, Airport Express, WPA Personal) to my Powerbook G4 (also wireless).

Today I tried to return the network to its normal state and everything works except the SB3.

I can stream from the SlimServer running on OpenBSD (Ethernet connected) to my Powerbook and iMac (wireless connected via Airport Express). The SB3 connects to the network, gets an address via DHCP, and then fails to connect to the same SlimServer the other machines are using. The SB3 will, however, connect properly to SqueezeNetwork.

I can ping the SB3 from the OpenBSD system. I do not see packets from the SB3 arrive at the OpenBSD system when it claims to be trying to connect (according to tcpdump output that shows traffic from the other clients). I have reset the SB3 and re-entered all data, with identical results. The Airport Express is configured to allow both WPA and WPA2 clients (previous config only allowing WPA2 did not work correctly).

I'm used to atrocious networking from this sort of device (yes, I'm talking about you, Roku), but this is pretty ridiculous.

Does anyone have any suggestions other than ditching all embedded players and sticking with software that actually works?


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Does anyone have any suggestions other than ditching all embedded players and sticking with software that actually works?


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Switch to Windows? (Sorry - only kidding!)

(1) Is there a firewall on the server - and if so is it possible its rejecting the IP address that the SB3 has been given, while allowing the address used by the other devices (perhaps because its only allowing a very narrow range of addresses)?

(2) I assume that since you can ping the SB3 that it has a good IP address... but, while in the mode where it can't see the slimserver, can you conenct to (and play from) SqueezeNetwork?

Ceejay

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Switch to Windows? (Sorry - only kidding!)

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(1) Is there a firewall on the server - and if so is it possible its rejecting the IP address that the SB3 has been given, while allowing the address used by the other devices (perhaps because its only allowing a very narrow range of addresses)?

The packet filter on the server permits the entire /24, that includes the range used for DHCP. The addresses in use by the DHCP clients, working or not, are sequential. Given that the packets weren't showing up in tcpdump, it seems like the SB3 wasn't even sending packets to the server when it said it was.

(2) I assume that since you can ping the SB3 that it has a good IP address... but, while in the mode where it can't see the slimserver, can you conenct to (and play from) SqueezeNetwork?

Correct. I am currently listening to the BBC World Service via SqueezeNetwork, but any attempt to connect to the same local server the Macs know and love fails.


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Can you uninstall/reinstall the protocol on OpenBSD? On win 2k its pretty easy to disable TCP/IP, restart and re-enable. May recognize SS?

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Can you uninstall/reinstall the protocol on OpenBSD? On win 2k its pretty easy to disable TCP/IP, restart and re-enable. May recognize SS?

2 other clients work fine and I don't even see traffic from the SB3 on the OpenBSD system running SlimServer. I've restarted everything involved without success in getting the SB3 working with the local server.

At this point I see no evidence of anything but the SB3 itself functioning incorrectly.


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I've just resolved this problem:

All the other clients are using HTTP on port 9000 to get their stream, but the SB3 isn't. It is using port 3483. Apparently the more, different ports and protocols you use the better.

Dumb.


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Hmm, odd. I'm about to run out of ideas, but before I go, how about one thing you might try... just for fun, install another copy of slimserver on one of your other machines (it only needs to have a couple of MP3s to play with) and see if that behaves any differently?

Ceejay

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I've been struggling for days now to get my SB3 to work reliably.

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And how does it sound now that this epic struggle has come to a conclusion?

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And how does it sound now that this epic struggle has come to a conclusion?

Thank you, voice of reason!

I like it. I'm sure it can be improved (there's a tube DAC in its future), but what can't?


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Thank you, voice of reason!

I like it. I'm sure it can be improved (there's a tube DAC in its future), but what can't?


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I'm actually gonna go with non-oversampling, but I have tubes in the amp. Good choice, enjoy