Hi folks, I went to bed last night, everything was hunkydory in squeezebox land. Woke up this morning, and it's clear something's happened during the night, because all the players can't connect. Its a Vortexbox, running LMS 7.8 and a new-ish 'top end' Netgear router.
First of all I tried rebooting the VB and LMS; then I tried re-booting the Router. That didn't seem to work. Now I've run around trying the whole power down/up routine (power everything down;power off/on router;give it time; restart all the players in sequence). So far I've only tried repowering the upstairs players. Two connect OK (a Touch and a Boom), two don't (another Touch and another Boom) and are reporting issues to do with "can't find DHCP address". I had been running a 'reserved IP address' system, which I understand is different from a 'proper' static IP address set-up. I'm about to try powering up the downstairs players (1 Touch and 3 Classics) to see how they get on - not that optimistic. It's this thing that keeps coming back to bug me about this system. I love what it can do - 7 players all synchronised is brilliant - and it can go for weeks or months really stable, lulling you into false sense of security, but at the back of your mind, you're always waiting for a morning like this when it all goes belly-up for no good reason. I say no good reason - I'm sure there probably is a good 'computer' reason - but tracking that down is a bit beyond my skills. * Given that I've powered down the LMS and the Router, will I now be able to find any logs that would help diagnose what might have happened? * Is it likely the router (Netgear D6200 - new December/January approx) is developing a fault? * Is it time to ditch 'reserved' IP addresses; go for static ones; and amend the range of the router's DHCP assigned addresses (I do have other properly 'mobile' devices which would need DHCP I think?) *Any other thoughts? Thanks as always. Donald SB "user" since 2000... 2 x SB1 ; 2 x SB3 ; 2 x Boom ; 1 x Touch ; 1 x Controller (and two spare SB3) Vortexbox appliance running LMS version 7.8 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ donmacn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=36036 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101213 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
