Hi, > On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 8:08 PM, Dave <rocke...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The easiest thing to do is use DHCP reservation in your router. This way > > when you boot the radio the router will see the MAC address of the radio > > and assign it the same IP all the time.
On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 08:54:51PM -0700, Larry Loen wrote: > Dave is correct. I do this for any device that I require to use in any > sort of "service" fashion. All my PCs and all my internet addressable > devices. Especially the Flex. Not my phones, but most everything else. > Works great. My PCs and so on still use DHCP (very convenient) and yet I > can count on the same IP address being assigned every time. > > It might go under a different name depending on the router. My router > calls it "static assignment" which is a terrible name because it is really > still dynamic, but goes to the same address. Basically, if you are filling > out a table in your router somewhere that takes your device's MAC and > assigns it to the same IP address every time, you've found it under > whatever name it is. Speaking of which, I'm somewhat baffled that SmartSDR (1.6.21) does not seem to have a way I can connect by entering the (already known) IP address of the 6700 -- assigned by DHCP with a "fixed" IP. If I'm missing something, please someone tell me. Maybe there is some .INI file setting or unpublished command option? Broadcast discovery only works if you are in the same subnet of the same LAN. It's the easy way to make things work for a typical home user, but without a way to override by specifying the radio's IP, this broadcast-only mechanism cripples my ability to use the Flex, and I'd think would be a limiting factor for many others too. For more advanced users, like in a commercial or multi-subnet LAN setup, even with fast local unfiltered connectivity between SmartSDR and the radio, SmartSDR cannot discover the radio if they aren't on the same subnet. For examble, Windows under VMWare Fusion on a Mac cannot make a local-subnet broadcast via WiFi, because there is a separate internal virtual network involved since the virtual machine cannot directly share the same IP on the wireless network adapter. I cannot use SmartSDR on my WiFi connected laptop--I have to run a wire out the window to the patio to plug in my laptop so my VMware Windows IP is on the same subnet as the 6700. I cannot reach the Flex-6700 from a PC in the other building, because they aren't in the same broadcast domain, even though there is no port filtering in between. Why can't I just type the 6700's IP address into SmartSDR somewhere??? This is so frustrating! Mark -- Mark G. Thomas (m...@misty.com), KC3DRE _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz To opt out of the Reflector: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz
