Hi, This is a little bit thinking about multiple NIC cards and routing. Now I have my Squeezebox connected to the SqueezeCenter on my PC successfully, but I have spent a week until I have figured out what was wrong.
So having an XP SP3, and I have 3 NIC card in the PC. Here is the connections: 1. NIC1, this is connected to the ADSL modem, and got 169.254.98.4 automatically, and having 255.255.0.0 mask. 2. NIC2, this is connected to another PC directly with crosslink cable, here I assigned 192.168.0.1 and 255.255.255.0 mask for the NIC card manually, the other end of the cable I assigned 192.168.0.80. 3. NIC3, this is connected to the Squeezebox directly with a crosslink cable. I assigned this card 169.254.190.108 and 255.255.0.0 mask manually. At this point, I had a lot of fight, since the Squeezebox was never able to connect to the PC. I have restarted everything, reinstalled the cards etc, etc. The Squeezebox assigned itself a 169.254.x.x address and 255.255.0.0 mask automatically, so it was good, but it just didn't wanted to connect to the SqueezeCenter. Finally I checked the connections with the CurrPorts utility, and I discovered that the Squeezebox reached the PC successfully, but somehow the feedback connection never came back to the Squeezebox. Then I tried to ping the Squeezebox from the PC, and it was timed out. At this point I discovered that the PC might route the feedback packet to a wrong NIC card, since the 169.254.x.x was also used by NIC1 card. Then I assigned a completely new IP range to NIC3 with the Squeezebox, assigned 10.0.0.1 to NIC3, and I entered manually 10.0.0.20 for the Squeezebox, and voila, the Squeezebox got connected to the PC. SO now it looks like this: So having an XP SP3, and I have 3 NIC card in the PC. Here is the connections: 1. NIC1, this is connected to the ADSL modem, and got 169.254.98.4 automatically, and having 255.255.0.0 mask. 2. NIC2, this is connected to another PC directly with crosslink cable, here I assigned 192.168.0.1 and 255.255.255.0 mask for the NIC card manually, the other end of the cable I assigned 192.168.0.80. 3. NIC3, this is connected to the Squeezebox directly with a crosslink cable. I assigned this card 10.0.0.1 and 255.255.0.0 mask manually. I assigned 10.0.0.20 manually for the Squeezebox. And this is working. So my question: When having multiple NIC cards, and those connected to different devices, those should have always completely different ranges? Can I have a 169.254.x.x subnet using for Squeezebox? Or it was the mask which is prevented me to connect SB to SC in the first case? Thanks -- batka ------------------------------------------------------------------------ batka's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12908 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=61709 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
