>> Please check your players' MAC address (should be printed on a >> sticker at the bottom/back of the player), compare it with what >> the player report. If they're _not_ the same, you can set it >> from the player's setup menu.
That's the weird thing. The Mac ID that is printed on the unit is indeed *still* the one that shows up in the Player settings screen in the browser interface. And that used to be the same Mac ID that showed up in the router's DHCP table. Now what's showing up is this weird long string of characters, not formatted with colons like all the other Mac IDs showing up in the same DHCP table. And the characters in ths string are not the same as the Mac ID without the colons. I haven't tried doing any translations to/from different base arithmetic to see if it's the same octet string expressed in some other base, or something like that. But it seems that the main problem is that the Mac ID is not being communicated correctly to the router when the player makes a DHCP request for an IP address. That's why every player is getting the same IP address. My guess would be that this string is the same from every player, that it comes from some overwritten location in player memory from which the DHCP request is constructed, leading to the bogus contents. Or perhaps that memory location is OK when the DHCP request is constructucted, but the string gets messed up at some point after that, but before it is sent to the router. Bottom line: since the Mac ID is showing up correctly in the browser interface, I can only assume that when it is communicated to SlimServer by the handshake the player makes when signing on to it, it is coming through correctly. It's only in the initial DHCP request the player makes that it's messed up. -- MikeGilpin ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MikeGilpin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=909 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25633 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
