Double Click Media Renderer to Ping

[DeFlanko]

I would love to see a feature to where when you double click the Media Renderer Icon in PSM it will do a CMD PING -a <ipaddress>

Reason would be for those Multiple [WMP] renderers that show up.

Either that or some how show the DNS name of the renderer instead.

[DeFlanko]

like in the logs i see that a ping command is used to identify devices on the network, what if you just added -a to that?
ie:

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C:\Users\<user_name_here>>ping -a -n 3 -l 64000 172.10.1.1

Pinging CISCOE4200 [172.10.1.1] with 64000 bytes of data:
Reply from 172.10.1.1: bytes=64000 time=24ms TTL=64
Reply from 172.10.1.1: bytes=64000 time=39ms TTL=64
Reply from 172.10.1.1: bytes=64000 time=28ms TTL=64

Ping statistics for 172.10.1.1:
    Packets: Sent = 3, Received = 3, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 24ms, Maximum = 39ms, Average = 30ms


Question #2... why -n 3-l 64000 !? why not just make it smaller to reduce network traffic... like -n 2 -l 1024? is it because its calculating something?

[ExSport]

Maybe it seems not to be real but when PING was used quite much in older versions it has big influence on media streaming.
Old versions without profiling frozen many times when movie were streamed due to unnecessary PINGs. It should be avoided as possible.
SO because of that it is used only for detecting renderer speed. Because of this 64000 size. Also -a lead to bigger pause because system tries to find device name via DNS(who has DNS server at home????) or it returns NETBIOS name.
It is not needed to use PING to detect renderers. They responds to PMS automatically with name of renderer so PING should be used for approximate renderer speed and not for anything other.
If you spotted some renderers are without detected speed it is due to router/switch limitation or renderer limitation. Some can't return so big "fragmented packet" like 64000, mainly WIFI routers, TV renderers etc.

[DeFlanko]

I have a DNS server at home.. i decided to make a test environment at home... its very helpful when you have roommates who love to torrent and you need internet restrictions. (DNS pointing to OPENDNS - all routhers in the house point back to the DNS Server...all clients get the DNS Server) locked down in GPO and AD restrictions...

IE: i hate torrenting...


ping...
so if its not needed lets pull it from the build...

[ExSport]

Why local DNS server for this purpose????
Your roommates are using internet which is shared with everybody via your router with WAN port.
Why you don't set OpenDNS IP there? Or you can set it via DHCP or GPO if you have AD integrated or defined by local policy

[DeFlanko]

If i setup DNS to point to Opendns at the router, joining pc's to the domain found to be impossible.

moot argument unfolding, all i really want is the ability to see NAMES... not IP's.. can it be done?

[Raptor399]

moot argument unfolding, all i really want is the ability to see NAMES... not IP's.. can it be done?

Yes, easily. Committed in r811.

[DeFlanko]

Sweet thanks bro...

[ExSport]

ping...
so if its not needed lets pull it from the build...

It is needed for speed measurement, not needed for anything else.

[DeFlanko]

ping...
so if its not needed lets pull it from the build...

It is needed for speed measurement, not needed for anything else.

That's what i figured... wasn't to sure...