One BIG issue is that the machine LMS is running on and your SB2 both have the same IP address, this is very bad, there is something really wrong going on here, that should not happen.
I can think of three possible reasons for this: 1) Your DHCP server is messed up 2) you have TWO DHCP servers on your network (maybe your PC is setup as a DHCP server?) 3) you have some devices using DHCP and some with fixed addresses, and ranges overlap I think a quick tutorial on DHCP is in order A device on the network needs an IP address, it can either have one programmed into the device, known as a static IP address, OR it can get one at boot time from some other device on the network. DHCP is the most popular method of network assigned addresses. The system consists of a DHCP server (usually built into the router) that contains a "pool" of addresses that it assigns to other devices. That pool is usually a continuous subset of addresses used on your LAN. For example in your system you are using 192.168.0.xxx, where xxx can be 1->254. The DHCP server is usually set for some portion of this, such as 2->200 or 100->254 etc. The DHCP server should never use the whole range so there are some numbers left for you to assign static IPs if you desire. When a device boots up it sends out a message on the LAN saying "give me an address". The DHCP server creates a "lease" for this device, it is an address from the pool AND a length of time it is good for. (on home servers it is frequently 24 hours, but can be much shorter or longer) If the lease runs out the device can't talk to other devices. Before the lease runs out (usually 10 minutes before) the device tries to renegotiate the lease with the server. IF the server is working right and all devices are using DHCP you should never have two devices with the same address. IF you use static addresses it is your responsibility to make sure you don't give any two devices the same address AND that you make sure you assign addresses outside of the pool used by the DHCP server. As mentioned above this goes out the window if you have TWO DHCP servers on the LAN. When a device requests a lease, it just sends out the message and waits for a response, if there are two servers that have overlapping pools, it's very easy to get address conflicts, if both servers reply to the request the device uses one and not the other, the two servers don't communicate with each other, they both think they are the only ones on the LAN. Normally your only DHCP server is in your router so it's not a problem. BUT it is also possible to setup a PC as a DHCP server (it's something like network sharing, I don't remember the exact name). You might want to check and see if that is setup on your PC. Another possibility is having a modem that has a bultin DHCP server AND a separate router that has a DHCP server. Some DSL, cable modems etc actually contain routers and DHCP servers builtin, if you add a separate router after that, you can wind up with two DHCP servers without knowing it. If that is the case you need to turn off one of those DHCP servers. I know, probably way more info than you ever wanted to know! It might be a good idea to give us a list of all your networking equipment (modems, routers, switches, APs etc) and how they are connected, that will help us figure out what might be happening here. John S. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100436 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
