How can I get this UDP relay package for casting across VLANs?
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Just wanted to follow up on this thread and mention that udpbroadcastrelay still works flawlessly under pfSense 23.01/FreeBSD 14.
It looks like there have been a few updates to the code since I first started using it:
https://github.com/marjohn56/udpbroadcastrelay
Also, it is great to see that a lot of work has already been done to turn this into a formal pfSense package:
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What is actual approach to install this package to 23.01?
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@georgecz58 said in How can I get this UDP relay package for casting across VLANs?:
What is actual approach to install this package to 23.01?
Good question. I'd like to know this too. I still have it installed manually as per instructions in this post. The package doesn't appear to be available yet. Not sure what the status is. Bug report is here: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/10818
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It's not been merged yet so you still need to fetch and install it manually:
[23.01-RELEASE][root@4100.stevew.lan]/root: fetch https://redmine.pfsense.org/attachments/download/4621/pfSense-pkg-udpbroadcastrelay-1.0.pkg pfSense-pkg-udpbroadcastrelay-1.0.pkg 12 kB 7983 kBps 00s [23.01-RELEASE][root@4100.stevew.lan]/root: pkg install pfSense-pkg-udpbroadcastrelay-1.0.pkg Updating pfSense-core repository catalogue... pfSense-core repository is up to date. Updating pfSense repository catalogue... pfSense repository is up to date. All repositories are up to date. The following 2 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked): New packages to be INSTALLED: pfSense-pkg-udpbroadcastrelay: 1.0 [unknown-repository] udpbroadcastrelay: 0.3.b [pfSense] Number of packages to be installed: 2 15 KiB to be downloaded. Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y [1/2] Fetching udpbroadcastrelay-0.3.b.pkg: 100% 15 KiB 15.3kB/s 00:01 Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting) [2/2] Installing udpbroadcastrelay-0.3.b... Extracting udpbroadcastrelay-0.3.b: 100% [1/2] Installing pfSense-pkg-udpbroadcastrelay-1.0... [1/2] Extracting pfSense-pkg-udpbroadcastrelay-1.0: 100% Saving updated package information... done. Loading package configuration... done. Configuring package components... Loading package instructions... Custom commands... Executing custom_php_resync_config_command()...done. Menu items... done. Services... done. Writing configuration... done. -
@stephenw10 said in How can I get this UDP relay package for casting across VLANs?:
It's not been merged yet so you still need to fetch and install it manually:
[23.01-RELEASE][root@4100.stevew.lan]/root: fetch https://redmine.pfsense.org/attachments/download/4621/pfSense-pkg-udpbroadcastrelay-1.0.pkg pfSense-pkg-udpbroadcastrelay-1.0.pkg 12 kB 7983 kBps 00s [23.01-RELEASE][root@4100.stevew.lan]/root: pkg install pfSense-pkg-udpbroadcastrelay-1.0.pkg Updating pfSense-core repository catalogue... pfSense-core repository is up to date. Updating pfSense repository catalogue... pfSense repository is up to date. All repositories are up to date. The following 2 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked): New packages to be INSTALLED: pfSense-pkg-udpbroadcastrelay: 1.0 [unknown-repository] udpbroadcastrelay: 0.3.b [pfSense] Number of packages to be installed: 2 15 KiB to be downloaded. Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y [1/2] Fetching udpbroadcastrelay-0.3.b.pkg: 100% 15 KiB 15.3kB/s 00:01 Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting) [2/2] Installing udpbroadcastrelay-0.3.b... Extracting udpbroadcastrelay-0.3.b: 100% [1/2] Installing pfSense-pkg-udpbroadcastrelay-1.0... [1/2] Extracting pfSense-pkg-udpbroadcastrelay-1.0: 100% Saving updated package information... done. Loading package configuration... done. Configuring package components... Loading package instructions... Custom commands... Executing custom_php_resync_config_command()...done. Menu items... done. Services... done. Writing configuration... done.@stephenw10 - with 23.01 having been released, any idea when this might become an official pfSense pacakge? Judging by the Redmine ticket it looks like the majority of the work has already been completed. Is more community testing needed?
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It might just need a nudge. Let me see what I can do....
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Just out of curiosity I tested it with a VM (Oracle) and ran into a php error
PHP errors PHP ERROR: Type: 1, File: /usr/local/pkg/udpbroadcastrelay/udpbroadcastrelay.inc, Line: 458, Message: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function config_get_path() in /usr/local/pkg/udpbroadcastrelay/udpbroadcastrelay.inc:458 Stack trace: #0 /usr/local/pkg/udpbroadcastrelay/udpbroadcastrelay.inc(202): udpbr_get_settings(true) #1 /etc/inc/pkg-utils.inc(802) : eval()'d code(1): udpbr_resync() #2 /etc/inc/pkg-utils.inc(802): eval() #3 /etc/inc/pkg-utils.inc(928): eval_once('udpbr_resync();') #4 /etc/rc.packages(76): install_package_xml('udpbroadcastrel...') #5 {main} thrown @ 2023-03-20 13:53:47 -
You should add that to the open redmine issue: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/10818
What version were you testing against there?
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@stephenw10 You mean Oracle VM or pfS version?
VirtualBox Graphical User Interface Version 7.0.6 r155176 (Qt5.15.2)
pfS 2.6.0 release CE -
The pfSense and pkg versions.
And also what exactly you did to trigger it. It seems to work as expected for me in 23.01.Steve
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Ah, Ok. Note that the package build 26/12/2022 that's on the redmine is for 2.7 or 23.01 only right now.
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Missed out that one ;) try an install on the beta (2.7.0) soon
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Looks like
udpbroadcastrelaywill be included as a pfSense package in 23.05 - great news!https://www.netgate.com/blog/pfsense-plus-software-version-23.05-rc-now-available
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Yup:
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@stephenw10 - that looks great! Do you know if it's possible to define more than two interfaces per
udpbroadcastrelayinstance in the pfSense package version? When running from the command line one can issue multiple-devoptions to support more than two interfaces per instance. Thanks in advance. -
Yes:
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@stephenw10 said in How can I get this UDP relay package for casting across VLANs?:
Yes:
Awesome - looking forward to trying the package with the release of 23.05 and retiring the command line version I have been running since pfSense 2.4.5.
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Updated my original instructions post above to reflect that
udpbroadcastrelayis now available as a package as of pfSense Plus 23.05. -
@tman222 said in How can I get this UDP relay package for casting across VLANs?:
Awesome - looking forward to trying the package with the release of 23.05 and retiring the command line version I have been running since pfSense 2.4.5.
Same. To switch, do you simply, remove the commands from Shellcmd, install the package and setup from the GUI? Or do we also have to uninstall the cli udpbroadcastrelay package that was installed from ports first?
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If you install the pfSense package it would normally pull in the udprelay pkg as a dependency. Since you already have it installed I expect it will simply not do that. You should not need to remove it.
