[PlanetCCRMA] data over local network

[Juan Reyes]

Hi Oded,

I will go for static addresses on all machines. If you are using OSC you
might need to open the relevant ports also (if using firewall).

With NetWork Manager in Fedora, you can create two devices bound to one
Ethernet hardware card. One device could be static and the other
dynamic. You might also need to update '/etc/hosts' file with all  IP
addresses and hostnames on your network (including the loopback host
127.0.0.0), so that network look up services don't take forever.

I think you can do the same trick on MacOSX, although it has DHCP as
default always. On older MacOSX you used NetInfo to update '/etc/hosts'.
If I am not wrong, I think you can now edit '/etc/hosts' by hand on
newer MacOSXs. 

This configuration should work with a switch or hub and you shouldn't
need a router on software and hardware.

  Good luck,

   --* Juan  

On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 09:36 -0600, David Nielson wrote: 
> On 05/10/2010 09:00 AM, Oded Ben-Tal wrote:
> > hi,
> > thanks for the reply and appologies for being a bit slow. But how do I
> > assign the ip addresses? We are connecting via a hub (not router) and the
> > mac (and my laptop under windows) gets an ip address somehow from the hub
> > with the first 2 numbers shared - i.e. mac had 169.256.x.y win had
> > 169.256.z.q
> > I think once I get to the successful ping stage we should be fine - we
> > managed to get OSC messages across with udpsend/receive between max and
> > pd.
> >
> > thanks
> > Oded
> >