SONOS in its own VLAN with pfSense 2.6
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Hi all,
First of all: I KNOW there are several threads for SONOS, multicast, etc. etc.... I have seen them, tried their recommendations, but still failed. There must be something I am missing. That's why I apply for your help.I'm trying for weeks now to find a solution and don't know what else I can do..
The goal is explained very simple:
I have a VLAN where my SONOS connects and I have another VLAN where my mobile phones connect. I want to control my SONOS with my mobile phone without having to switch VLAN.Is there anyone, that can explain their working setup with pfSense 2.6? Most of the threads I have found are very old and I'm not sure if they apply to pfSense 2.6.
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First off, I have no experience with SONOS. However, many multimedia devices use multicasts, which are not normally passed by routers. So, you'll need to have that SONOS device on the same subnet as the phones that control it. I ran into exactly the same situation with a Yamaha receiver.
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Nothing has changed in 2.6 that should make a significant difference here. The thread covering this using pimd should still apply.
Steve
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After a lot of failing I finally have a very first small success:
My interim solution is using https://github.com/marjohn56/udpbroadcastrelay on another virtual machine I spin up just for that and more or less "disabling" my firewall (i.e. currently I allow way to much traffic between my networks... but as a starting point it works finally and I think from here I can work my way out by silently reading existing posts ;-)).
I'm not very familiar with freeBSD, that's why using a separate LXC for that is more convinient to me. Now, that I know it CAN work, maybe (possibly never..) I will take the time and migrate that to my pfSense host.
Anywas, thank you for your answers
