MeteoBridge Relay issues

[pcmwn]

Hi,

I have just set up a davis vantage pro 2 with weatherlink ip to my MeteoBridge. MeteoBridge is reading the data OK and all seems to be fine with it, howeever I cannot connect via WeatherLink when it is connected to the LAN port on the MeteoBridge. And I note that when I attempt a ping of the WeatherLink IP from my computer I get duplicate packet issues:

64 bytes from 192.168.0.30: icmp_seq=0 ttl=62 time=28.275 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.30: icmp_seq=0 ttl=62 time=29.272 ms (DUP!)

I also note that for some reason my router (Netear WNDR4000) thinks that the MeteoBridge has got the IP address of the WeatherLink IP - even though I connect to the MeteoBridge via its own IP address (192.168.0.130)

Any help appreciated.

[admin]

Looks like you force them by static IP settings in the devices or at your router to identical IPs. That will make trouble.

[pcmwn]

No, They are on different IPs - something strange happening.

[Mattk]

So both IP's are fixed static or mixed DHCP/Static?

I am running VP2 WLIP (via cisco switch/DLink wireless broadband router) and have not seen this one but at this point my WLIP/s are all fixed, MB/s are DHCP but will eventually fix the MB IP also and run both via dual port M2M. Network wise all appears to behave pretty good.

[pcmwn]

Hi All,

In case anyone else gets this, I found that I have to turn off the forwarding of broadcast traffic for the Relay network device. - see attached.

This has resolved all my issues.

Peter.

[admin]

thanks, will check this.

[pcmwn]

I may have spoke too soon.

It worked fine for a while, but has failed again - lost contact with weather station - possibly when the DHCP on the WLIP expired.

This setting did however stop the DUP packets on ping.

Back to the drawing board.

[admin]

What puzzles me is that it is working fine for the other users.
Still wondering what makes you setup special.