dhcp in peer to peer mode

K5CG

I received the 6300 today (used in excellent condition - made in June) and I have done a factory reset (white blinking LED).

I cannot get my laptop to communicate with it directly wired. I am expecting a DHCP server in the Flex to provide an IP address and this isn't happening from what I can tell.

I've tried at GigE speed full duplex and dropped port speed to 100 Mb/s to no avail.

I need to be able to use it in peer to peer mode since I will be operating this way away from home.

Any help wold be appreciated.

Danny
K2DMS
Plano, TX

Tim - W4TME

The FLEX-6000 does not have a DHCP server.  This is a function provided by a router or a server on the network.  If your Windows PC is configured for DHCP and none is available to provide the DHCP service, then Windows will fall back and allocate a link-local IP address in the 169.254.x.x / 16 subnet.  The radio will do the same.

What type of PC and what version of Windows are you using?

John Wilson

I've never heard of the Flex containing/running a DHCP server. When ever I connect my PC to the Flex directly - I get a 169.254.0.0/16 (link local) address -
as expected since there is no DHCP server. Even with this address - my PC can still see and 'talk' to the radio.
Can you 'see' your radio if you use two cables plugged into a router's LAN (with DHCP server), your PC and your Flex?

K5CG

Connecting the 6300 to my LAN router I can now see the radio in the SmartSDR panel with my laptop connected with Wireless N.

I can see HW version etc., on the Radio tab.
IP 192.168.1.240
Mask is empty. Really?

There is a notice that says "An update is required". OK, let's do that.
First time failed, says to reboot the radio. Done.
Update in progress...

K5CG

OK, that's good to know. I'll try again now the the update has been applied. See below.

Jim Gilliam

I wonder when the WAN becomes available it will provide a manually allocatable I/P address  and port number(s).

Jim, K6QE

K5CG

Hi Tim.

HP Elitebook 8530p Core2 Duo @2.8GHz, 8 GB RAM.
SmartSR v1.5.1.152
GPU: Maximum Acceleration

I was able to get into SmartSDR while connected to the LAN and browse around the band. I can hear WWV etc.

I powered the radio off so that it would lose the DHCP lease.
Set the laptop NIC back to auto-negotiate.
Disabled WiFi.
Connected the direct cable between.
Powered down the laptop, brought it back up.
I see IP 169.254.79.297 IP with the 16 bit mask.
LEDs are a blinking on both devices.
Waited 5 minutes.
No radio listed.
I see no other MAC addresses in the arp table.

K5CG

I just transferred the warranty on the site a minute ago.

K5CG

Forgot to mention...

Windows 7 Professional 64 bit.

K5CG

Just for shiggles, I installed a DHCP service on the HP laptop as a possible workaround. But the Flex could not get an IP from it so that told me there was a problem with the connection or NIC settings on the laptop.

To further confirm it was he HP laptop I installed SmartSDR on my wife's Dell 17R and sure enough the radio came right up. So that's that. I think there must be an Advanced setting for the NIC that is not right or missing.  Intel 82567LM Gigabit Ethernet controller

Adaptive Interframe Spacing: Enabled
Enable PME: Enabled
Flow Control: RX & TX Enabled
Gigabit Master **** mode: Auto detect
Interrupt Moderation: Enabled
Interrupt Moderation Rate: Adaptive
IPv4 Send Offload: RX &TX Enabled
Jumbo Packet: 9014 (also tried disabled)
Large Send Offload V2 (IPv4): Enabled
Link Speed & Duplex: Auto, 100MB/s full
Link speed Battery Saver: Disabled
Priority & VLAN: Priority & VLAN Enabled (Also tried off)
Receive Buffers: 256
Receive Slide Scaling: Enabled
System Idle Power saving: Disabled
TCP Checksum Offload (IPv4): RX & TX Enabled
Transmit Buffers: 512
UDP Checksum Offload (IPv4): RX & TX Enabled
Wait For Link: Auto Detect
Wake on Link setting: Disabled
Wake On Settings: Disabled

I skipped the IPv6 settings.

I'll update again if I get it working, and please make any suggestions if you see anything wonky.

Thanks
Danny
 

K5CG

OK OK I figured it out.  Wait for it....

Windows firewall!

D'Oh!

Jim Gilliam

The thing I could never understand about Windows is that when they have something that really works well, they always make it twice as hard to use in the subsequent versions, or eliminate it.

Lawrence Gray

Windows Firewall service should be permanently disabled by disabling the service.  It causes no end of issues.

K5CG

I turned the Windows Firewall back on, then added a new "Custom" rule linked to the SmartSDR.exe application to allow only 169.254.0.0/16 on both the local and remote IP address ranges and it still works.

Done. Thanks everybody for the help.

73
Danny
K2DMS

Tim - W4TME

You beat me too it.