Unicast Artnet

[samsc]

Ahh right, I think we might be at cross purposes...

See email.

i dont think so - i can get this to work on my mac pro-

i have airport and 2 ethernet ports- both active and running.

I created a duplicate for ethernet port 2 - with artnet settings- dragged it to the top of the configurations- this makes the mac multihome in this network address range.
if i dont do this i cant see the luminex box on the network- as there is no route to this box with the network configuration.
i have to admit creating multihoming this way isnt obvious at all...

and i can see everything in catalyst-
i didnt even have to restart catalyst... i didnt have to set any network 'interfaces'.

[samsc]

i can also create other ports - with different address ranges on the same physical port - for accessing my serial port servers-

here i have 2 more network configuration for an easysync serial server, and an equinox one - both of which have different default subnet ranges and addresses.

[basicmonkey]

No matter what I try, I can't nudge airport off the top. My configs are ordered with airport at the bottom and still it appears at the top of the list and cat bonds to it.

Edit: I've managed to knock Airport off the top by removing it's gateway and no longer says it's connected to the internet through this connection. After doing this I can order the connections how i'd like, cat works great and can discover my net lynx fine!

As soon as I give my airport config a gateway and dns server in manual, it jumps to the top again and can't be shifted, thus cat bonds to that IP.

Strange behaviour.

[basicmonkey]

Ah, maybe to do with the default gateway?

[samsc]

Ah, maybe to do with the default gateway?

i believe the gateway handles unknown or not specified address ranges.

can you show me what you did to setup your multihoming?

[samsc]

thus cat bonds to that IP.

Strange behaviour.

it doesnt matter what ip address i display.
there isnt any 'bonding' like this-

i just display a single network address - the reality is that these days a single computer can have many ip addresses ... for me to display this - and for endusers to have to manage this - would be very confusing.
most of this is handled by the os. i dont have anything to do.
if i did the gui would be a nightmare to deal with.

[basicmonkey]

I'll get some pictures up when I get the chance, nose deep in programming at the moment.

I'm starting to understand what you mean about the way the OS and Cat handles the IP, sorry for misunderstanding about 'Bonding' just my terminology.

Will catch up on the issue after this hectic few days!

Cheers Richard.