Another interesting thing the Touch will do, is send a WOL (wake up on lan) signal to the mac address of the server. The mac is a layer2 address which is set physically on the network hardware by the manufacturer. No IP addresses (Layer3) are required for this communication.
In my setup, I use a Nettop pc as the LMS which is set to shut down every night at 12 (suits most school days!!!) When I power up either the Touch or iPeng, the WOL is sent to the mac address of the PC, it boots, the PC then gets an IP address from DHCP and LMS starts running. As John says, UDP broadcast is used by each device to find the server. The broadcast by its nature is sent to all devices (PC's, laptops, PS3's etc....) attached to the home network but only the LMS will respond. Once the IP address of the client (SB) and server (LMS) are known to both, they will communitcate via IP address. I dont believe the SB system will use names to identify devices on the network. In any case from a networking perspective the name resolves to an IP address and the IP resolves to a MAC address so the IP would need to reflect the MAC address of the repective device, Has the displayed IP address updated now or does it still show the old address? -- UV101 SB3 Deep Blue screen - 2 Clocks, 3 Low noise regs, SEPC & ZA caps, External PSU 80VA, Hexfred & Mundorf SI, RA Signature PowerKord. Audio Aero Capitole MKII Spinner & DAC, RESTEK fantasy (modded), Heavily modded SL-1200MKII,Denon DL-103L by Expert Stylus Co (Sapphire Cantilever & custom Diamond stylus),Classe Processor, Focal 706v kimber rewire and Mundorf Supreme in crossovers, 8TC speaker cables, Kimber power cables & NNUX mains filter. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ UV101's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37086 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93706 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
