Thread: Using the "Team Use" TCP ports
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Re: Using the "Team Use" TCP ports
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Originally Posted by pensono View Post
The address of the roboRIO is determined by DCHP. This makes it impossible to know for sure what address to connect to from the laptop. I think the driver station software gets around this by using mDNS, but there's no support for mDNS in something like winsock.
You can give your roboRIO a static IP address through the roboRIO Webdashboard. Then, you can just access the roboRIO through this IP address. mDNS should still work, so I don't think it will break anything.