Multiple NIC support?

I’ve been using node-ssdp 2.2.1 as a client on Windows 8.1 and it has been working perfectly, thanks!

Recently I installed on another Windows 8.1 machine and found that everything went silent. I unfortunately don’t have full-time access to that machine, but I did notice it has two network cards returned by os.networkInterfaces() as:

"network_interfaces": {
            "Ethernet": [
              {
                "family": "IPv6", 
                "netmask": "ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff::", 
                "mac": "xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx", 
                "internal": false, 
                "scopeid": 3, 
                "address": "fe80::c570:b450:f38c:e02b"
              }, 
              {
                "mac": "xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx", 
                "internal": false, 
                "netmask": "255.255.255.0", 
                "family": "IPv4", 
                "address": "10.10.20.1"
              }
            ], 
            "Ethernet_2": [
              {
                "family": "IPv6", 
                "netmask": "ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff::", 
                "mac": "yy:yy:yy:yy:yy:yy", 
                "internal": false, 
                "scopeid": 4, 
                "address": "fe80::9864:ed9b:ea63:6506"
              }, 
              {
                "mac": "yy:yy:yy:yy:yy:yy", 
                "internal": false, 
                "netmask": "255.255.255.0", 
                "family": "IPv4", 
                "address": "192.168.35.54"
              }
            ], 
            "Loopback_Pseudo-Interface_1": [
              {
                "family": "IPv6", 
                "netmask": "ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff", 
                "mac": "00:00:00:00:00:00", 
                "internal": true, 
                "scopeid": 0, 
                "address": "::1"
              }, 
              {
                "mac": "00:00:00:00:00:00", 
                "internal": true, 
                "netmask": "255.0.0.0", 
                "family": "IPv4", 
                "address": "127.0.0.1"
              }
            ]
          }

Here Ethernet is connected to a single machine using 10.10.20.1, while Ethernet_2 is connected to the wider internal network via 192.168.35.54. I’m wondering how node-ssdp behaves in this scenario?

I noticed a similar issue here, and it looks like the relevant code actually creates a socket for each host IP address it finds.

I’m wondering if the simple solution is to create a new Client() for each IP address? Or if this scenario should be handled at a lower level? Thoughts?

Thanks!

[ds82]

For me, it actually works 👍 😁 (using 3.0.0-beta2 from npm) I’m on a mac (10.10.5) with two ethernet connections and an active VPN connection. Using …

...
const client = new Client({explicitSocketBind: true});
...

…actually works! Well done! 😎

[diversario]

Seems like this issue’s been addresses (or mostly addressed?..). I’m going to close it.