Fixing WiFi Multicast Flooding in bridged networks

Thu 21 September 2017 Tags:

• english
• multicast
• openwrt
• bridge
• wifi
• ethernet
• flood
• pulseaudio
• rtp
• mpd

I'm using MPD and PulseAudio's RTP multicasting to get a seamless multi-room audio experience.

Unfortunately, if you're using a network bridge to connect your wired and wireless LAN, using multicast RTP might have unintended consequences: All WiFi clients are flooded with multicast traffic, which can bring down the entire wireless …

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