RoboRIO / FMS / mDNS / lessons learned

[fovea1959]

Originally Posted by Mr. Lim

Also, if the RoboRIO's DHCP server hands out a bunch of leases BEFORE connecting to the FMS, would this necessarily be a bad thing? I'm not sure there is a downside. All the devices would get proper 10.te.am.zz IPs, and assuming mDNS is still configured, everything should be addressable by hostname, even if the FMS doesn't know everyone's IP address via DHCP.

I suspect this might be a bad thing, everyone would have 10.te.am.zz IPs, but would they be *unique*? What if the FMS assigns an address that the RoboRIO previously assigned, but to a different machine?

Would it be correct to say that anything that (correctly) does DHCP, and falls back to link local addresses, and uses mDNS for name lookups works fine? If so, the setup right now works, we just need to take care of the "not correctly" cases (i.e. reusing DHCP-assigned addresses across disconnects/reconnects). Or am I over-simplifying?