Mark quite honestly I wouldn't say your use case is very common. Direct IP is probably(definitely) a ways out at this time, and using a Ham radio in a commercial multi subnet environment make is even less common. Depending on your IT policies your workaround is probably limited to a vpn connection between subnets, and one that supports broadcast traffic over vpn.
Flex Radio's "LAN" remote capability was proven to mostly work fine over WAN with VPN, even though they don't officially support it. I had it running within 30 minutes of the functionality release. So what is your solution? perhaps a soft ether vpn. Check the flex community and you will find plenty of information on this. VPN into the other subnet and allow broadcast traffic. The 6000 is a work in progress, and there are many things being worked on and developed. there are 3rd party apps, and new peripherals nearing release now that will need similar re-architecture to make this work.. Were I you I would start looking into a creative solution that you can come up with for your environment, to use the product now... IP based connectivity will require a significant architectural shift and will take those guys significant time to implement. Just my 2 cents, your mileage may vary. GL.. Chris N6WM ________________________________________ From: FlexRadio [flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] on behalf of Mark G. Thomas [m...@misty.com] Sent: Friday, February 26, 2016 10:27 AM To: FlexRadio Reflector Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Smart SDR static IP 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 _______________________________________________ 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
