Can someone explain why my IP address has changed?

JJorgeBlank · 11 Aug

For whatever reason, I can currently only now access the IDE now through http://192.168.8.2, and only one mac computer but not another with (I believe) an identical configuration.

For some reason, Bela's IP address is listed as 192.168.8.1 in the Network settings, rather than the usual 192.168.7 (or 6).1
If I ping this current address I get (1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0.0% packet loss) but the others return 100% loss as does Bela.local. 192.168.8.2 also returns 0.0% loss, as would be expected.

Prior to this as I was having a terrible time accessing the IDE (due to neither bela.local nor the expected IP addresses working) so I ran the update_board script, but that didn't reset the address or make the board accessible through bela.local despite the script saying that it was connecting through root@bela.local.

I did try setting the IP address to one of the more common IPs manually (192.168.7 (or 6).1 ) but this did not make the IDE accessible from those addresses though I could ping the one I had set it too (however if I set it to 192.168.7.1 I could ping this but not 192.168.7.2 (which is the actual board right?) ...so I can't understand this.

Can someone help me understand what is going on and how this updated itself to this new address?

giuliomoro · 11 Aug

The only way it would show up as 192.168.8.2 is if you went through something like this https://learn.bela.io/using-bela/technical-explainers/ip-addresses/#how-to-change-the-ip-addresses and reverting it may bring you back to the desires behaviour. What version of macos are you using on each computer?

JJorgeBlank · 12 Aug

Hi Guiliomoro, thanks for helping me look into this.
I am on Sequoia 15.3.2 (24D81).

I was running two belas from this computer for a previous installation, but I don't recall changing the IP addresses myself manually. Rather the mac (which was then the previous operating system, Big Sur but not sure which number) simply labelled one 'Bela' and the other 'Bela 2' in the Network preferences, and but I thought that at that time the IP of one was 192.168.7.2 and the other 192.168.6.2. Could the operating system have changed it to 8.2 without me doing anything? If not I must have done it and just forgotten which is weird in itself.

I can currently log in to the IDE at http://192.168.8.2/, but not using bela.local, despite the bela-master 'update_board' script finding this same bela at root@bela.local...why is that?
Also I can log in using Firefox (which I rarely use otherwise) rather than Chrome (which I generally use for everything but cannot find the IDE no matter what I do), so I thought maybe it had to do with the DNS cache for Chrome?

Since I can use Firefox for the IDE it isn't an emergency of course, but I'd like to understand what is going on for future troubleshooting...

Thanks so much for all your advice and suggestions.
jorge