Odd DHCP stuff

Had an issue with one of my gateways. I had it configured with a static IP.

When I go to use it this week, it had a Dynamic IP nowhere near our IP range. (10.101.*.*)

Subnet on the console is 255.0.0.0, so it should not have been able to communicate with the gateway, but the gateway was sending DMX through the proper universes. I could not access the gateway via Concert.

After an hour of troubleshooting, I gave up and grabbed a new switch & hooked that up between console (DHCP server) gateway & laptop. Everything worked & I could reset it.

It seems as if there was another DHCP server on my house network, but I can't physically find anything on the network I built. House switch is a TP Link TL-SL1218P POE.Unmanaged. and the Gateway worked.

Why else could this have happened?

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  • To add to Tracy's point above - the likely reason DMX worked is you are using sACN to transmit the data to the DMX Gateway. sACN is a multicast protocol, so will work even if the IP address is set incorrectly. However, gateway configuration requires unicast, so the device needs to have an appropriate IP address on the same subnet as the computer running Concert.

  • Awesome!

    TIL Thank youse both.

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