Roon Server on Different VLAN/Subnet - Why Not?

[Peter_Bruderer]

Roon does use multicast to discover endpoints. If you are experienced enough to configure your router to do multicast routing, you will get it working.

Talking to Roon from another VLAN (I got it working)

So as a networking / systems engineer it really annoyed me that Roon wasn’t reachable between subnets. I won’t go into why I need multiple VLAN’s at home, but it is what it is. I just got it working and it seems stable so far and a quick search in the forums makes me think I’m the only person to document this solution. As always, YMMV. Anyways, my config: Internet <-> pfSense <-> Multiple /24 network segments My Roon core is 172.16.1.100 where my laptop moves between the 172.16.1.0/24 netw…