[fixed] Client : Connetion to server problem with multiple network interfaces (1 Viewer)

[Smeulf]

HI Albet,

Both client and server are on the same machine...

And it's about 1 time of 10 as mentionned before, so totally unpredictible. This occurs with a remote client too, but I agree with you, with WLAN packets can be dropped...

But, I think found my problem :

I have 2 network adapters on my computer, 1 physical, and 1 virtual for virtual machines. The virtual one was down, but it seems sometime the client was trying to use that adapter (virtual, so sometime stranges issues...)

Since I disabled that adapter, I can't reproduce the problem, and it (seems to) speed up the reaction of the client.

Even if you don't fix it right now, it's interesting to know that, and maby at the very end, you can add an option to define with network adapter both client and server will use.

Morpheus, are you in the same case ?

Cheers.

Smeulf.

 

[FreakyJ]

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I have 2 network adapters on my computer, 1 physical, and 1 virtual for virtual machines. The virtual one was down, but it seems sometime the client was trying to use that adapter (virtual, so sometime stranges issues...)

Since I disabled that adapter, I can't reproduce the problem, and it (seems to) speed up the reaction of the client.

This could also be the reason that I can't reproduce the issue anymore, because I removed VM Ware some days ago =)

 

[Albert]

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So noone can reproduce that problem anymore? Then the thread should be closed.

 

[morpheus_xx]

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I don't think it should be closed yet.

Meanwhile I exchanged my WLAN to 300 MBit, so I can try once more if it works now reliable...

 

[FreakyJ]

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I reinstalled VMWare and have now connection issues again... >_>

 

[Smeulf]

Re: AW: Client : Connetion to server problem

I reinstalled VMWare and have now connection issues again... >_>

After some searchs, it seems there is no effective way to determine if a network adapter is virtual or not.

If we assume few users will have Virtual Machines on a HTPC, we can recommend to disable any virtual network adapter while using MP2-Server.

Another way would be to create a MP2-Server option to select the interface on which it would work, but Albert said that this would be against the UPnP specifications, so...

 

[FreakyJ]

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I just wanted to let you know I don't have VMWare installed on my HTPC xD And all in all it's working fine =)

 

[FreakyJ]

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Hmm, it looks like that this is a bigger issue...
Client and server were connected, after I was away for some hours and came back the client was disconnected, but the Server still thinks they are connected oO

Screenshot attached =)

 

[Albert]

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I reinstalled VMWare and have now connection issues again... >_>

After some searchs, it seems there is no effective way to determine if a network adapter is virtual or not.

If we assume few users will have Virtual Machines on a HTPC, we can recommend to disable any virtual network adapter while using MP2-Server.

Another way would be to create a MP2-Server option to select the interface on which it would work, but Albert said that this would be against the UPnP specifications, so...

Would be good if we could avoid configuring the network interfaces to use for UPnP, but it is not against the UPnP specs. If we don't find a better way, we should create a configuration option for that.

Some years ago, when I used a VPN to connect to the server at my former work, I remember it also broke when I installed VMWare. When I uninstalled it, the VPN worked again. VMWare seems to be the reason for many network problems at the computer where it is installed...

 

[MJGraf]

Client can't find Server

Hi everybody,

I'm just collecting my first MP2 experience and I must say, I'm really impressed! Congratulations to this excellent piece of software!

But I have one problem and I hope somone can help me with it: When I run the Client and the Server on the same machine, everything works without problems. When I start the client on a different machine, it doesn't find the server. What I did is:

Start MP2-Client
Go to: Settings -> General -> Home Server -> Search for Servers
It tells me "Currently, there is no MediaPortal 2 Server available in the network"

(ClientLog attached, Client Error.log is empty)

But there is! None of the machines is running a firewall or the like, I can ping them with IPv4 and IPv6. Can I somehow manually enter the Server address? I can't find a configuration file to do this (maybe "MediaPortal.UI.ServerCommunication.Settings.ServerConnectionSettings"? But I don't know what to put into that file...).

Any help appreciated and keep up the good work!
Michael