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ChristianSchloesser Member |
posted 09 March 2010 10:41
 
Is it possible to assign a static IP address to pacarana? I don t do DHCP and bonjour on my mashines in the studio. I connected the pacarana to a dedicated Ethernet Card of one of my OS X mashines. But it is not possible to activate Bonjour just for one Ethernet adapter in OS X as i know. The easiest way would be assigning a static IP to the pacarana as i do audio over ethernet on the other cards and i don t want to "flood" network with broadcast messages...etc. anyway to do it? IP: Logged |
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bar|none Member |
posted 09 March 2010 11:41
If it's connected to an ethernet card directly, go into Network preferences in OS X and change the ethernet connection from Using DHCP to Using DHCP with manual Address. Then you can assign the address yourself. If you are simple connected to a router like a linksys, some routers in their configuration page allow you to fix the IP address of hardware in the DHCP table so they will always use the same address. Usually you just pick the device from a list and fix the address basically binding the hardware's MAC Address to a fixed IP. IP: Logged |
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ChristianSchloesser Member |
posted 09 March 2010 13:52
Yes i use DHCP with manual address on the dedicated ethernet adaptor. The problem is that i could not enable bonjour only on one adapter. Another Card is connected to a special switch which is used with midi/audio over ethernet with doesn not like DHCP and bonjour broadcast messages. Is there a way to enable bonjour only on one eth port? Everytime i start Osculator i have to enter the new Pacarana IP by hand... without bonjour it does not find the pacarana.(PacaMIDI does not find the pacarana at all...) If i could assign a manual address i could configure Osculator once and forget about it. All the best IP: Logged |
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bar|none Member |
posted 09 March 2010 14:23
Ah understand now. I don't think there is a way to enable/disable bonjour on specific ethernet ports. The solution is probably to make sure pacarana always gets same fixed IP. PacaMidi is a separate issue, it has no manual override of IP address. It's beta right now so maybe Douglas wou;d add a way to enter manual IP there for you. IP: Logged |
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ChristianSchloesser Member |
posted 10 March 2010 13:16
till i find a better solution or the pacarana s could be configured with a static IP. i switched bonjour back on ;-( and blocked it on my audio and MIDI network cards with a trick from a hackintosh forum... chris IP: Logged |
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ChristianSchloesser Member |
posted 12 March 2010 15:16
hmmm...after a bit using it with bonjour i found out it is not such a good solution... For example i build a simple 32 Step interface for my TR sequencer in Quartz Composer ... but QC only works with static IPs ;-( ... so please SCC a simple static IP address for the pacarana would be great to integrate the pacarana with lots of nice OSC software out there... or am i missing here something? all the best IP: Logged |
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ChristianSchloesser Member |
posted 12 March 2010 15:36
if i use Osculator as a hub "in between" it works... but not my prefered solution... i should open a new topic on this one... all the best chris IP: Logged |
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SSC Administrator |
posted 12 March 2010 16:14
There is no way to assign a fixed IP address within the Paca(rana) itself. The Paca(rana) uses DHCP to get its address, so if you can configure a DHCP server, you could make that server hand out a fixed IP address whenever it sees the Paca(rana)'s Ethernet ID. There are two ways to do this: 1. The easy way is to have an external Ethernet router on the Paca(rana)-host computer network. Most routers let you configure the internal DHCP to hand out these static addresses. 2. The more difficult way is to turn on a DHCP server within the Mac OS. This would most likely involve typing in some Unix commands in Terminal. I would guess that there are some hints on how to do this somewhere on the internet. IP: Logged |
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tuscland Member |
posted 12 March 2010 17:58
Hey all, The easiest way to turn your mac into a DHCP server is to activate Internet Sharing.
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ChristianSchloesser Member |
posted 12 March 2010 18:02
yes i figured it all out now. at this moment i received your reply i configured my bootpd.plist (witch is read when you turn internet sharing on) to give the pacarana a dedicated ip... but thanx all the best IP: Logged |
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ChristianSchloesser Member |
posted 13 March 2010 11:17
I finally used the ISC DHCP compiled from source (but there is an easier way see below). The Mac "Internet sharing" was not an option for me. It is uncomfortable to configure because of missing tools and documentation on the workstation version of SnowLeo (i think Apple wants you now to buy OS X server for this purpose. thats reasonable). On default OS X does NOT assign a static IP but any IP from a pool and it ALSO starts BIND (DNS server) to forward DNS requests. The easiest way to use Mac OS X as a small DHCP server it would be to download/install darwin ports (http://www.darwinports.com/) sudo port install dhcp then edit the dhcpd.conf in /opt/local/etc/dhcp/ and finally run as a Daemon: so that are my 5 cents on DHCP for static IP for pacarana on a dedicated Ethernet Port. if there is an easier way please let me know. all the best IP: Logged |
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