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Re: RoboRIO / FMS / mDNS / lessons learned

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Originally Posted by jhersh View Post
While what you describe can work, the simpler configuration that teams are expected to use when at an event in the pits is to set all devices to DHCP + Link Local (the default for most devices) and use mDNS to find them even when they get a 169.254 address. If there is a tool that was released that doesn't support mDNS, then you should report that as a bug on the collab.net site.
This only applies if your team isn't using macs, which we've found cannot use the mDNS to find the roboRIO reliably.

Thanks for posting this! We'll definitely be setting up a static IP configuration at the comp, as we're using macs.
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