pgriffith 65 Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 Is there a way to bind Emby Server to use a particular local IP ? I have recently setup a VPN service on my Emby Server/Download/Torrent box to become a bit more anonymous. When the VPN is active (24/7) on a Virtual NIC, Emby wants to use this IP instead of the IP of the physical network card. Clients setup to search for the server fail to connect on this new IP. I can still connect on the original local IP, I just want to stop Emby from advertising the new VPN address. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37113 Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 Not at the moment. It binds to all ip's right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pgriffith 65 Posted April 24, 2015 Author Share Posted April 24, 2015 Well shit Thanks mate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AgileHumor 123 Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 (edited) If you have Windows 8 Pro, you can host a small virtual machine (VM) that can have it's own gateway as a child of that VM.. I have Emby Server on my HTPC, and then a Virtual Machine with NZBGet, Utorrent, CP, and Sonarr running on it. In my setup, I actually route all that VPN traffic to a cheap internet connection from cable company...separate from my main internet on another vendor...something you can't do unless it's on isolated machine. I've locked it down the routing table to only allowing local LAN access and only 4 external IP addresses (VPN and Newshost)...unless it's connected to the VPN. This allows me to connect on the local LAN to the VM's the web interfaces to control...and the virtual machine "lockbox" just exports the files to my HTPC where Emby will discover it. Edited April 24, 2015 by AgileHumor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Kemp 3 Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 I run mine in a VMware environment and have the same issues with IP/Adapter binding, the only way I can get the MB Server to work correctly is to order the bindings with a metric and then configure UT to use the specific IP address on a higher cost binding with the VPN connection. I might say that this is a real pain as the IP changes ever time I log into the VPN. Sure would be nice if there was a option like in IIS on Windows with a dropdown box of all active IP's and allow all or a specific IP to bind to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhodges 37 Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 Is this a feature that can be added sometime in the future? I have a couple IP addresses assigned to my server, for various reasons. I would like to have Emby to only bind to one of them. Even if I have to hand edit a config file, that would be fine with me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shorty1483 453 Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 You guys can change the priority of adapters , Emby will choose the one with highest. Gesendet von meinem HTC One M8 mit Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingy444 108 Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 when do you think we will be able to bind to a certain IP? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBL 8 Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 Hey pgriffith (OP), Similar to what AgileHumor mentioned, I used rules on my firewalls (Netgear Router and Windows Firewall) to direct traffic to the specific IP address I wanted Emby to respond on. Please let me know if you'd like more details on my setup! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DannyN 1 Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 Yes. Details please. I have the same issue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlbme 13 Posted February 24, 2016 Share Posted February 24, 2016 Binding to all IPs makes sense. Using your media server as a seedbox doesn't make sense. If you're limited by the number of computers then I'd suggest to do as AgileHumor states. HyperV is built into most versions of Windows and will allow you to run a VM from within your main box. So just go in, check the box in Features to install HyperV, reboot, setup a new VM. Once done, login to that VM and then set that up with the VPN connection using the virtual adapter in HyperV. I haven't tried it, but I believe it should work fairly easily as your network will see the two IP addresses as two separate machines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingy444 108 Posted February 24, 2016 Share Posted February 24, 2016 @@carlbme Why does linking to all IPs make sense so much that we couldn't have the option to bind to a single We already have the option to alter ports etc. Why not just add a tick box on that page that says "bind to all local IPs" and unticking it would allow you to bind to a single specified IP? I wouldnt think it would be that hard of a change with the rest of the network communicaion freedom we have. Every other media server i have used has let me choose this? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlbme 13 Posted February 27, 2016 Share Posted February 27, 2016 @@kingy444 I agree, I see no issue with having this option. Except maybe that it would only be used by a few people, could possibly cause more issues than not for users who don't understand it. And with a limited number of users who might have the need for it, then the resources needed to develop this might be best put to use elsewhere. That said, my post was more of a statement that using the one logical machine to do everything was unwise, and having the NEED to set a specific network interface for that reason was not much of a valid reason as a whole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhodges 37 Posted February 28, 2016 Share Posted February 28, 2016 @@carlbme I could say the same about other features of the application. I don't begrudge features that I don't need. I think spinning up a VM and allocating the resources needed for that VM as unwise. We each have our own opinions of unwise. I don't have a second nic on my computer. I assigned it another IP address. I use that IP address exclusively for another application and that makes QoS a lot easier to manage. Because Emby binds on both addresses. I don't want that. For me, does it hurt anything? Nothing but my OCD. I am a .NET developer myself. It would take fewer lines of code in the server to implement than 1/3 of this conversation. It would be even less if you didn't want to expose it thru the UI, and wanted to leave it in a config file, or something out of the way like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingy444 108 Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 @Luke do you think we could have something like this included on the feature requests list. Wouldnt expect many lines of code to accommodate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcberry22 0 Posted May 10, 2016 Share Posted May 10, 2016 I have the same issue. I have to have my server as duel purpose and I find that port 8096 is binding to all my virtual ip addresses making connectivity to the server through the web browser almost impossible. I have to bounce the service most times to get it to connect. I seem to have issues with reliable recording also... not sure if this would affect that too as I would think it is not related. Now that I finally know what is going on, this program is completely useless to me util you can implement a fix to bind to a particular ip address. I think you WAY under estimate how many people need this feature and although I am no programmer, it does seem like it should be an easy fix. Are there any plans to add this feature? I just paid for lifetime membership and now I cant use it. Regards, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcook 265 Posted May 10, 2016 Share Posted May 10, 2016 I agree it would be nice to define which IP address the EMBY service is using if required, however your statement that the program is completely useless in its current state is rather harsh, I have 3 physical nics in my server, and yes EMBY is listening on all 3 of them and I have not had any issues. I actually found it could be useful as I have some clients in my house configured to use 1 ip and some others using the 2nd ip (3rd ip is used for internet access) this allows me to split the load for streaming, I don't know if it is really necessary as they are all 1GB Nics but its all working well so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcberry22 0 Posted May 12, 2016 Share Posted May 12, 2016 You are correct in that it was a "little" harsh and I apologize to all. I am just frustrated because when I want to connect to the web client I am unable to as it just sits there and spins. This happens numerous times throughout the day. I have to bounce the service in order to get connectivity to it and if I am in the middle of recording, it kills it. So far, (only tried it yesterday for first time) I found that if I kill my virtual box services so the other 3 sockets that were created by the 0.0.0.0:8096 statement are not established, everything seems to work ok. (I have 3 NIC's in my server) I dont know why I did not think of this sooner. It seems like the port is in use by another service, but I would think that none of those other sockets should be communicating on that port as there is nothing to call that port. The only one using it should be the one with my server address on eth0. I have nothing configured on the other 2 and I am just using them for Virtual box. mcberry22@MLAB:~$ ip link show 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000 link/ether 40:8d:5c:5a:40:e6 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 3: eth1: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000 link/ether 68:05:ca:3e:de:84 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 4: eth2: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000 link/ether 68:05:ca:3e:e1:b8 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 5: vboxnet0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000 link/ether 0a:00:27:00:00:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 6: vboxnet1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000 link/ether 0a:00:27:00:00:01 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 7: vboxnet2: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000 link/ether 0a:00:27:00:00:02 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff mcberry22@MLAB:~$ ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 40:8d:5c:5a:40:e6 inet addr:192.168.1.118 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fd00::428d:5cff:fe5a:40e6/64 Scope:Global inet6 addr: fe80::428d:5cff:fe5a:40e6/64 Scope:Link inet6 addr: 2601:282:880:667:428d:5cff:fe5a:40e6/64 Scope:Global UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:167906 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:97323 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:157077019 (157.0 MB) TX bytes:25753105 (25.7 MB) eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 68:05:ca:3e:de:84 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 TX bytes:0 (0.0 Interrupt:18 Memory:fe6c0000-fe6e0000 eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 68:05:ca:3e:e1:b8 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 TX bytes:0 (0.0 Interrupt:19 Memory:fe5c0000-fe5e0000 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1 RX packets:68250 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:68250 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:41707604 (41.7 MB) TX bytes:41707604 (41.7 MB) vboxnet0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 0a:00:27:00:00:00 inet addr:192.168.56.1 Bcast:192.168.56.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:224 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 TX bytes:33198 (33.1 KB) vboxnet1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 0a:00:27:00:00:01 inet addr:192.168.57.1 Bcast:192.168.57.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:200 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 TX bytes:31692 (31.6 KB) vboxnet2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 0a:00:27:00:00:02 inet addr:192.168.58.1 Bcast:192.168.58.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:121 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 TX bytes:19335 (19.3 KB) This is how it starts out looking when I just bring up Emby web client: mcberry22@MLAB:~$ netstat -na | grep 8096 tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:8096 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 192.168.1.118:58248 192.168.1.118:8096 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 192.168.1.118:8096 192.168.1.118:58244 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 192.168.1.118:58242 192.168.1.118:8096 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 192.168.1.118:8096 192.168.1.118:58248 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 192.168.1.118:58256 192.168.1.118:8096 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 192.168.1.118:58250 192.168.1.118:8096 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 192.168.1.118:8096 192.168.1.118:58242 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 192.168.1.118:58244 192.168.1.118:8096 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 192.168.1.118:58246 192.168.1.118:8096 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 192.168.1.118:8096 192.168.1.118:58246 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 192.168.1.118:58252 192.168.1.118:8096 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 192.168.1.118:8096 192.168.1.118:58256 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 192.168.1.118:8096 192.168.1.118:58252 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 192.168.1.118:8096 192.168.1.118:58250 ESTABLISHED Then it shows like this: mcberry22@MLAB:~$ netstat -na | grep 8096 tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:8096 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 192.168.56.1:8096 192.168.56.1:43470 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 192.168.1.118:58248 192.168.1.118:8096 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 192.168.1.118:8096 192.168.1.118:58244 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 192.168.1.118:58242 192.168.1.118:8096 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 192.168.1.118:8096 192.168.1.118:58248 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 192.168.57.1:8096 192.168.57.1:60724 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 192.168.1.118:58272 192.168.1.118:8096 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 192.168.57.1:60724 192.168.57.1:8096 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 192.168.1.118:8096 192.168.1.118:58272 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 192.168.58.1:8096 192.168.58.1:56326 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 192.168.1.118:58250 192.168.1.118:8096 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 192.168.1.118:8096 192.168.1.118:58242 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 192.168.1.118:58244 192.168.1.118:8096 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 192.168.1.118:58246 192.168.1.118:8096 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 192.168.1.118:58260 192.168.1.118:8096 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 192.168.58.1:56326 192.168.58.1:8096 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 192.168.1.118:8096 192.168.1.118:58246 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 192.168.1.118:58252 192.168.1.118:8096 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 192.168.1.118:8096 192.168.1.118:58256 TIME_WAIT tcp 0 0 192.168.56.1:43470 192.168.56.1:8096 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 192.168.1.118:8096 192.168.1.118:58260 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 192.168.1.118:8096 192.168.1.118:58252 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 192.168.1.118:8096 192.168.1.118:58250 ESTABLISHED Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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