Is there a way for a PMS to point to more than 1 IP address for remote access.
Not sure what you are asking. More than one person can access the Plex Server remotely. Can you rephrase your question?
The remote access feature uses 1 address to a public IP. The question is for the purpose of using more than 1 IP address to utilize load balancing.
Plex has no provisions for using multiple IP addresses that I’m aware of, but perhaps a search of the forums will produce some results for you.
Do you have one ISP with multiple IPs or multiple ISPs with 1 IP per?
One ISP. Multiple WAN connections with alternating paths.
Do you have a static IP? Is this cable, fiber, adsl or metro-Ethernet?
Dynamic IP’s. Cable modems have the same throughput, separate gateways. Load balancing with fail over.
Not an easy scenario to have work with Plex–as there is no built in mechanism to deal with that other than the default WAN IP check every ten minutes. You could try to write some special scripts that detect a change in the WAN IP at the OS level that could trigger a restart of PMS.
What I am interested in is for PMS to not fail over to the second WAN (That is the job of the for the router), rather for PMS to to offer additional option to add another Remote Access IP.
I am not sure that is achievable within PMS for now.
Sorry to dig up an old topic but I have my plex on my local lan, the lan has 2 gateways. 2 different isp’s, 2 seperate lines. I have dyndns addresses setup for both but can only use one connection for remote access. I have a dual port gigabit pcie HP lan card in the server which I can enable both gateways(1 on each lan port) but again plex is only able to use 1 lan card/port and therefore 1 gateway.
Would it be possible to add a 2nd listen port which could be assigned to a different adapter?
Server runs ubuntu if this helps.
As far as I am aware PMS listens on all interfaces however it will only publicly announce one WAN IP. Locally it uses a defined list of IPs to determine priority of access.
There are a few work arounds that come to mind. The first is to use the manually define server section.
The second which is a bit inefficient would be to use VMs each binded to a different Wan, you can then select between them from the main menu.
