360 Linux Lovin'

Before you can stream anything, you need make sure that IP multicasting is enabled on your Linux box. Multicasting allows multiple hosts to receive the same packets from a single source, and on the 360, it’s used to broadcast searches for streaming hosts. Every modern Linux distribution should have multicasting built in to the kernel, but not all of them configure your network interfaces to listen for multicast packets.

The proper way to enable multicast is by adding a route for the local multicast address range, using the ‘route’ command. Substitute your own interface name if it’s not ‘eth0’:



Try searching for your PC again – with any luck, the 360 will be able to detect it now. If it doesn’t work, you can try the brute-force method, which forces your network interface to listen to all multicast traffic on your LAN. Unless you have a very strange or busy LAN, this should work fine: