Hey Derek,
ah okay, didn’t know that this works the same way under windows
Phillip @ptaylor, did you understand how Derek activated the command line interface under Windows?
If you try this, and find the address, you have to finally enter it into the URL bar of your web browser on your laptop. Can you see the Onefinity Application now?
I work across Windows and Linux all day long, many of the Windows CLI commands were derived from BSD back in the 90s so they are very similar.
Hey Derek,
I have never tried out which are really there, I rarely have the opportunity or the need. What I meant with my question is rather, what is the official Windows Desktop way how you would make the address visible?
Wow!! What a support team. I’m on the road and not able to read everything here. I’ll be at home in a couple of hours and will surely try your suggestions. You are all awesome and so knowledgeable.
You can view the locally assigned IP address with the command ipconfig, using the arp command is sort of a hack to see what else might be on the subnet - since it’s a point to point connection the only entry I’d expect to see will be the Onefinity controller.
Unfortunately for me 98% of my user base runs Windows so I have to support that, and 90% of my server and infrastructure hardware runs some form of Linux so I’m stuck with both.
Hey Derek,
but I meant, isn’t the fact that, after finding no DHCP server, the system switches to link-local configuration, available somewhere on the Windows Desktop, on the Control Panel Application or somewhere?
Yes, most users are Windows users, that’s why I ask
Yes. Which address do I enter?
I copied each 10. Number individually and it just took me to web pages. Do I enter them in the url area with Wi-Fi off?
Hey Phillip,
the one that starts with 169.254 is the link-local one (which, as I learned today is called APIPA under Windows)
yes, into the address bar of your web browser
Hey Phillip,
your USB-to-Ethernet Host Adapter on your laptop seems to have the address 169.254.3.214, but I see no other address on this subnet except the 169.254.255.255 entry.
You seem to have a 10.x.x.x private network now. What is 10.0.0.243?
It’s statis and not dynamic. I don’t enter that one do I?
you can do no wrong by entering anything
You have no other networks connected and wifi is off?
10.0.0.243 is listed as dynamic on your photo and 10.0.0.1 as well
I would assume the 10.0.0.x addresses are your wifi.
Can you try entering the command “ping 169.254.255.255” without the quotes then run the “arp -a” command again. This may force the controller to show itself on the network.
I have no idea. You can see what I have hooked up.
Hey Phillip,
try the ping command Derek suggested. The fact that you have a 169.254.x.x. range address assigned to your Ethernet Adapter means there is something configured with link-local at the other end (that has an IP address too)
This is what I get with Wi-Fi on or off
Try arp -a again after ping 169.254.255.255 to see if it populated a dynamic entry in the arp table.
No it says the same thing as last time.
Interface: 10.0.0.231 — 0x8
Internet Address Physical Address Type
10.0.0.1 10-56-11-75-9f-59 dynamic
10.0.0.243 38-9d-92-cf-df-86 dynamic
224.0.0.2 01-00-5e-00-00-02 static
224.0.0.22 01-00-5e-00-00-16 static
224.0.0.251 01-00-5e-00-00-fb static
224.0.0.252 01-00-5e-00-00-fc static
224.0.2.3 01-00-5e-00-02-03 static
239.255.255.250 01-00-5e-7f-ff-fa static
255.255.255.255 ff-ff-ff-ff-ff-ff static
C:\Users\Fiesta>ping 169.254.255.255
Pinging 169.254.255.255 with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Ping statistics for 169.254.255.255:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),
C:\Users\Fiesta>
You need the “arp” output concerning the other interface, 169.254.3.214
