[Jpatterson1710]

Originally Posted by rtfgnow

The recommendation is to use DHCP unless you have a reason not to, most of the time being an additional ip based device. If that is the case than CSAs are told to use static IPs and they will work fine with the field if the last octet is less than 20 and not 1 or 4. As a rule of thumb I use 2 for the roboRIO and 5 for the DS.

The robot should not have a DHCP server when in the pits. Edit: An external router can act as a DHCP server in the pits if not wifi enabled.

This is true. It's much more simple to use DHCP. Additional IP devices aren't usually an issue if the IP on that device is set correctly. (Should be under 20 on the last octet.) FMS begins assigning the DS at 20, reserving lower addresses for these cases.