Icecast Streaming Media Server

[Anonymous]

Hello everyone,

What port do I use for more than 2 listeners (multiple listeners...) and how do I set it to that port via config?

Thanks in advance for any replies,

Phillip.

[karlH]

Listening clients can use the same port whether there are 2 or 14000 listeners, but you can use multiple ports if you want, look at the <listen-socket>

karl.

[Anonymous]

Hi Karl,

Thanks very much for help, and hopefully future help.
I know it sounds silly, but would do I do at the </listen-socket> part?

Regards,

Phillip.

[karlH]

look at the samples xml files or the docs that we ship, there's only 2 possibilities in that group, port and bind-address, the latter being rarely used.

karl

[Anonymous]

I don't get it?

[EvilOverlord]

Think about it... a web server listens only on one port, (80) and can service thousands of similtanious requests.

Icecast needs only one port to service as many listeners as you have bandwidth/CPU cycles to support.

[Anonymous]

Hi EvilOverlord,

I might be sounding buggy now, but what do I need to config in the IceCast 2 config so I won't see '2' as the peak listeners, but 6?

Regards,

Philip.

[EvilOverlord]

Edit the "clients" directive in the limits section of the icecast config as below: