Hello, for quite some time my K41 had an IP address ending with 153 coming from the DHCP server. If I would reboot the machine this address would not change.
In the last few days I noticed that the IP address is going up and it is now 156? Music sounds still the same so it is not a big issue but still surprising. Any thoughts?
It would be useful if the TCP/IP address setting was made configurable with an option to set it to a static adress
The best approach is to set a IP reservation in the router.
Devices that are configurable only via a webpage should never provide the option to set a static address. If the static address becomes unreachable then there is no way to change the address. Reservations in the router are always the best approach for setting static IPs.
Unless a reservation is set in the router, devices can grab addresses that had been used by another device. I set reservations for any device that should have a static address to avoid this. My NAS and the player and server on the K50 have reserved IPs.
This not without danger. I once did that and got a new router with a different a ddress range. Ouch
Will do. Turns out the cable was not very well connected. So it lost connection several times. Fixed now
It usually easy to configure the new router to use the address range of the router it replaced. I will agree though that it can be a bit stressful at first.
It is more an issue when you forget to do it. Afterwards it is more difficult
Then don’t forget. Haha. Having suffered through it once, I have learned that a little upfront preparation is always a good thing when changing to a new router. Fortunately, I’ve not had to do that in years. All it takes is just capturing the relevant settings to a file.
I ran into similar issue in the past week. When I reboot my Oladra the IP address of the server changed (weirdly the player IP stayed the same since DAY1) even after I made the IP reservation of the server in my router. I can confirm that the MAC address changes too and I suspect that’s why the new IP is assigned as my router treat it as a new machine. As I’m currently using JPLAY, when the IP changes I will have to change the setting manually and resync the library again to make it work. I’m wondering if there’s an ideal solution to this? Thanks in advance.
For a MAC address to change it is likely the ethernet cable was plugged into a different port on the rear of the OLADRA
Do you use both Network and Direct Stream ports?
Hi Marc,
I didn’t change the port, not on the oladra side or the switch side. I shut down the oladra in order to connect the I2S from the Oladra to MSB and only the ethernet port is used. I then power up again the Oladra and found the IP / MAC changed.