[Thad House]

Originally Posted by JohnGilb

I concur - throughout the season, while using MDNS, I have seen situations where one or more of the below things working while the others don't:
- Ping via CMD window
- Ping via Powershell window
- FRC Driver Station
- SmartDashboard
- SFX (SmartDashboard 2.0)
- Deploy code via Eclipse
- roboRIO web portal

It's really a mess. mDNS is great when it's working, but when it isn't, we have to just continuously reboot the robot/computer/disconnect & reconnect adapters/plug in a cable, then unplug it and wait 10 seconds/etc... and just hope that something will work.

Static IPs were inconvenient but relatively bulletproof - and in the world of FRC robotics I often value robustness over feature richness.

Plus if you do have a DHCP server on the radio, you get most of the convenience back. IP's would still get handed out to the DS. Plus mDNS never really has worked on things like camera's and offboard processors, which we just set static anyway.