# Inferno: implementing Dante audio networking

> Inferno implements Dante audio networking on Linux from reverse-engineered protocol behavior. Its Rust components send and receive audio with Dante devices, while an ALSA virtual soundcard and a raw-audio pipe adapter expose streams to local applications.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Protocol
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-09
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/teodly/inferno>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/teodly/inferno/blob/9767558e0905c9e9c960f5a60e050fbdc38300b7/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/inferno-dante-protocol-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/inferno-dante-protocol-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/inferno-dante-protocol-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** Requires Linux, Rust and a clock synchronization daemon; the quick start calls for a modified Statime build.
- **Prerequisites:** ALSA use requires ALSA development libraries.
- **Limits:** The author describes the implementation as highly experimental and notes that guessed protocol behavior may fail in other setups.
- **License:** Component directories include GPL, AGPL and other license files.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/teodly/inferno/blob/9767558e0905c9e9c960f5a60e050fbdc38300b7/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/teodly/inferno/blob/9767558e0905c9e9c960f5a60e050fbdc38300b7/Cargo.toml>

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