First of all, my sincere gratitude to everyone involved with mediasoup, this is an amazing project and extensively documented. I have been reading the documentation trying to understand some of the configuration options of mediasoup. I encountered the term “listenIp” in many situations and once i l…

There’s no requirement that the mediasoup transports use the same listen IP as your websocket. The mediasoup library isn’t concerned with how your app does signaling, and has no concept of websockets or http. It may very often be the case that the websocket and mediasoup transports use the same IP,…

It is used for listening on IP address for incoming request, this is a standard terminology for any server application

In most of the use cases i saw there is a http or webcocket server that receives requests and calls the mediasoup API to create transports and what not, are those the requests you are referring to?

Any server you host will have a listening IP. It’s the IP listening for connections whether it’s an http, ws or media server. 127.0.0.1 is a loop-back address known as LocalHost; if listening to localhost no remote connection can reach the server. 0.0.0.0 is our unkown or no particular address pla…

I guess i get it. But one more question to confirm it, if i setup a websocket in the same node.js app i use with the medisoup module, do i need to set the listenIp to the same ip i used for the websocket server? Or its sufficient that the listenIp is externally reachable?

[image] Gabriel-rd2: I guess i get it. But one more question to confirm it, if i setup a websocket in the same node.js app i use with the medisoup module, do i need to set the listenIp to the same ip i used for the websocket server? Or its sufficient that the listenIp is externally reachable? …

@CosmosisT ts really extensively documented, but that doesn’t mean that it is beginner friendly, thanks for your first answer nonetheless.

@jbaudanza thanks for your answer i understand it now, i just need to take a closer look on how webrtc operates specifically.

It’s not intended to be beginner friendly, if you expect that I am sorry but a video-game be easier to make for a beginner… At least if you learned to program a video-game, you would eventually learn to network them (multi-player) and then want voice communication landing you at RTP… fun all along…

@snnz Thank you so much! This is really helpful.

What exactly is the listenIp?

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snnz (Sergey Nozhenko) January 6, 2022, 10:53pm 10

See the suggested reading here.

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What exactly is the listenIp?

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