Hi BaconBrain, I fully agree. I'm sure many more people will report back their results and of course one always has to try for himself (like you, carcrashboy and I are doing/planning) to determine the worth of something like this. It's easy (when you're not a networking noob of course) and cheap enough. I do know Romaz has an excellent system and there's little he hasn't tried. If it was most anyone else sharing what he did I probably wouldn't have taken it seriously.
I'm not currently using the mR but the SMS-200. Both run in Roon RAAT mode. HQPlayer is another thing on my list to try one day, I've never used it anywhere. Good luck with your experiments!
edit: I'm not sure yet if I'll use bridging. I may try to get things working first in the old fashioned way using static routes and a DHCP server on the machine (which has an onboard nic and seperate Intel i210 server adapter). The default gateway will be on the regular adapter and I'll use a seperate subnet for the adapter to the SMS-200. I don't use Tidal with Roon so that interface used to directly connect the SMS-200 doesn't need Internet access except for SMS-200 updates. I'll figure out where these come from and add static routes for that/those hosts and any other routes that are possibly needed.
I'm not currently using the mR but the SMS-200. Both run in Roon RAAT mode. HQPlayer is another thing on my list to try one day, I've never used it anywhere. Good luck with your experiments!
edit: I'm not sure yet if I'll use bridging. I may try to get things working first in the old fashioned way using static routes and a DHCP server on the machine (which has an onboard nic and seperate Intel i210 server adapter). The default gateway will be on the regular adapter and I'll use a seperate subnet for the adapter to the SMS-200. I don't use Tidal with Roon so that interface used to directly connect the SMS-200 doesn't need Internet access except for SMS-200 updates. I'll figure out where these come from and add static routes for that/those hosts and any other routes that are possibly needed.
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