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> Hi,
> 
> We ran the first day of our scrimmage today and it did not go as easily as I 
> had hoped.  We ended up finally getting matches going about 3 hours late after
>  troubleshooting a significant network problem.
> 
> When we did initial testing at the beginning of the event, everything was 
> working fine.  As we tried to run matches and more than 1 robot joined the 
> match, all the driver stations would start dropping off the network and they 
> wouldn't come back.
> 
> We eventually traced this to multiple DHCP servers active on the LAN.  Best I 
> can tell at this point, when the OpenMesh radios are put into FMS-Lite mode, 
> the configuration tool leaves DHCP enabled.  This is a very bad thing.
> 
> Fortunately, it was easy enough to flip all the driver stations to static IPs.
>   That solved that problem.  Some of the robots had similar issues, but not as
>  severe as the DSs.
> 
> The next problem also fell on the OpenMesh radios.  We configured all the 
> teams without any trouble, but throughout the course of the day, we found that
>  certain teams' radios would lose their programming and stop connecting to the
>  field (no green light).  Reprogramming would get them working again for 
> another match or two, but then they'd go stupid again.
> 
> All teams were using the new AN radios, except for one team who's AN failed 
> hard and they had to borrow an AC, which worked fine after that.
> 
> Hopefully tomorrow won't go any worse.
> 
> Terry

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