Force Placeshifter to bind to a particular IP Address

[trini0]

It's been a long time since I've used Placeshifter. But I'm heading out of town today, and it would be nice to get it up and running again.
My server has three "live" NICs.
The primary NIC is listed first in it's binding order, and is the only NIC with a gateway specified.
But placeshifter refuses to bind to it, when I configure it. So I doubt it will work if I attempt to connect to it from the Internet.
See my IP Address configuration below.
Placeshifter only binds to 169.254.10.11. I tried reordering the binding order, and restarting the SageTV service, but it doesn't change from 169.254.10.11.
I've checked the properties file hoping that there is somewhere that I can manually bind placeshifter to a particular IP Address.
Hope someone can help with this matter.
Thanks

Windows IP Configuration

   Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : SAGETV
   Primary Dns Suffix  . . . . . . . : foo.com
   Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
   IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
   WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
   DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : foo.com

Ethernet adapter LAN Connection:

   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . : 
   Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Marvell Yukon 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller #4
   Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-24-8C-2A-89-58
   DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
   Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
   IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.10.11(Preferred) 
   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.10.1
   DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.20.10
   NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled

Ethernet adapter SAN Connection:

   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . : 
   Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Marvell Yukon 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller #2
   Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-24-8C-2A-8A-0A
   DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
   Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
   IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.200.11(Preferred) 
   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 
   NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled

Ethernet adapter HDHR Connection:

   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . : 
   Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Marvell Yukon 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller
   Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-24-8C-2A-8A-88
   DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
   Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
   IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 169.254.10.11(Preferred) 
   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0
   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 
   NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Disabled

Tunnel adapter isatap.{3BAA1F65-47C1-49C6-9041-C4DC1231EFBD}:

   Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . : 
   Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft ISATAP Adapter
   Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
   DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
   Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

Tunnel adapter isatap.{9DF1FCB7-61DA-4FD6-A187-0B51F9C3036F}:

   Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . : 
   Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft ISATAP Adapter #4
   Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
   DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
   Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

Tunnel adapter isatap.{825F6E4E-68A8-4A01-9EAC-2072F8B57BC6}:

   Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . : 
   Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft ISATAP Adapter #5
   Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
   DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
   Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

[Narflex]

The placeshifter server socket binds to the wildcard IP address; so it will receieve packets that come in on any IP for that machine.

What you're seeing in that screenshot you posted is for the UPnP automatic port configuration. When SageTV is telling your router what port to forward (if you use the UPnP port forwarding); it then needs to provide a specific IP address to the router.

So if that's not the right IP for port forwarding; you can just manually setup port forwarding on your router and then everything should work fine.

[trini0]

Originally Posted by Narflex

The placeshifter server socket binds to the wildcard IP address; so it will receieve packets that come in on any IP for that machine.

What you're seeing in that screenshot you posted is for the UPnP automatic port configuration. When SageTV is telling your router what port to forward (if you use the UPnP port forwarding); it then needs to provide a specific IP address to the router.

So if that's not the right IP for port forwarding; you can just manually setup port forwarding on your router and then everything should work fine.

Let me see if I'm understanding you correctly.
My router doesn't support UPnP. But Placeshifter would listen on any IP Address on the server (regardless of what that screenshot says).
And if I forward the port to the LAN IP address, it should work just fine.
I'll test it out..

[Fuzzy]

Yes, I believe placeshifter binds to 0.0.0.0, which means it effectively listens on all adapters.

[sacrament055]

On a related topic I've noticed that my clients folder on my sage server is using the MAC address of the first adapter windows lists. In my case the problem with that is work had added a VPN adapter that has no real connection except when I setup my VPN tunnel. As a result of that every time my sage server reboots it makes me go through the initial config options instead of recognizing that I've connected before and already configured my options.

[GKusnick]

Originally Posted by sacrament055

On a related topic I've noticed that my clients folder on my sage server is using the MAC address of the first adapter windows lists.

You can force it to use a particular MAC address from the command line:

java -cp MiniClient.jar sage.miniclient.MiniClient -mac clientMAC serverIP

Or leave off the serverIP if you want to choose your server from the menu.

[sacrament055]

Originally Posted by GKusnick

You can force it to use a particular MAC address from the command line:

java -cp MiniClient.jar sage.miniclient.MiniClient -mac clientMAC serverIP

Or leave off the serverIP if you want to choose your server from the menu.

Thanks for the reply. I tried the line you added with my mac (tried with the dashes as listed with ipconfig/all and without dashes) and no server listed so I can choose but when I click on my server I get a series of error messages:
Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/med
ia/opengl/GLEventListener
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at sage.miniclient.MiniClientManagerFrame.connectToServer(MiniClientMana
gerFrame.java:494)
at sage.miniclient.MiniClientManagerFrame.access$200(MiniClientManagerFr
ame.java:12)
at sage.miniclient.MiniClientManagerFrame$2.mouseClicked(MiniClientManag
erFrame.java:76)
at java.awt.AWTEventMulticaster.mouseClicked(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.media.opengl.GLEventListener
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
... 36 more

[sacrament055]

Got a response from Sage support, looks like the command is a little different:

java -cp MiniClient.jar;jogl.jar;gluegen-rt.jar -Xmx192m sage.miniclient.MiniClient -mac XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX

seems to be working perfectly now.. Thanks!

[trini0]

Originally Posted by trini0

I'll test it out..

I'm happy to say that all is well.
Thanks all for the knowledge..