Magicportal

Magicportal allows you to forward multicast UDP data from one place to another where multicast is not supported.

Magicportal has to be run on both servers. It uses Gnatsd(https://nats.io) message queue for sending messages between them.

It can be run on two modes:

1. forwarder: Has to be run in this mode on the server where data has to be received.
2. agent: Has to be run in this mode on the server where multicast isn't supported.

Note: TLS can be enabled, but currently Magicportal doesn't support client certificates. This will be suppported in the future.

Usage

$ ./magicportal.bin -h
  --config string   Configuration path (default "config.toml")

An example config:

mode = "agent"
multicast_groups = [
    {multicast_addr = "233.1.2.5:34074", interface = "lo"}
]
max_packet_size = 1024

[nats]
tls = false
nats_url = ["nats://127.0.0.1:4222"]
auth_enabled = false
username = ""
password = ""

[agent]
send_as_unicast = true

[agent.unicast_addrs]
"233.1.2.5:34074" = "127.0.0.1:24113"

Magicportal needs a config file which can be in json or toml. See config.sample.json / config.sample.toml for example configuration.

We can give multiple multicast groups in the multicast_groups array. send_as_unicast will tell the agent to send the data as unicast to the address mapped with the multicast group in unicast_addrs.