Competition Router Problems

[ozrien]

I've seen that a lot too.

What is supposed to happen is, on the field, every Ethernet node gets leased a 10.XX.YY.ZZ IP. Off the field, since there is no DHCP server, every EthNode should fall back to link-local 169.XX.YY.ZZ. This is the case for teams that use DHCP (most teams) and not static-ips (like that CD thread Kevin suggested).

My observation (particularly with Win8 but sometimes in Win7), the DS stays with 10.XX.YY.ZZ after the match. If the team is using DHCP, what I do when I have a team tether up (after a match) is....
-open a cmd shell.
-do "ipconfig"
-if the DS IP is 10.XX.YY.ZZ, do "ipconfig /release" then "ipconfig /renew"
-Then windows will animate the network icon in the bottom right (start menu). This is to show that windows is trying to re-DHCP.
-do another "ipconfig" to confirm it goes back to 169.XX.YY.ZZ

In Win8, after doing that, sometimes it still persists at 10.XX.Y.ZZ. So I disable/re-enable the network adapter. That seems to always work.

If IP is 169.XX.YY.ZZ [ok] and DS software is still No-Robot-Comm [not ok], I usually just restart the DS software.

Alternatively if the EthNodes are all static, I don't think you will see this issue. But if you're helping a team out after a match, you may not have the time to do this, so hopefully this quick procedure might help.