[hpsdr] Specifying Explicit IPs for Hermes or Metis in PSDR

[Lloyd Berg - N9LB]

Yes, the ability to assign individual static IP addresses is very important to my HPSDR plans too.

Hope this will be possible in the near future.

73

Lloyd - N9LB

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[mailto:hpsdr-bounces at lists.openhpsdr.org]On Behalf Of Duane - N9DG
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Subject: [hpsdr] Specifying Explicit IPs for Hermes or Metis in PSDR


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Has there been any thought to modifying PSDR to allow users to explicitly specify the IP of the Hermes or Metis that it will talk to?

The reason I ask this I am making good head way on my “round 2 it” project of getting all my DDC/DUC HPSDR gear up and running. As part of that I'm wanting to run 2 Hermes on one computer and a Metis and Flex 5K on another. Running the 5K with either the Metis or Hermes is no sweat. What I'm trying to figure out is what is the best way to run either two Hermes or a Hermes and Metis on one PC. My original thought was to have dedicated NICs for each IP HPSDR radio, but more recently I've concluded it would be nice to run all of the IP based radios on the same IP network and with addresses all in the same IP range. So my current thinking is that it would be extremely useful to be able to attach all 3 IP radios to a single switch and then also two separate PCs to that same switch as well.

Operationally I would for much of the time be running the two Hermes on one PC that I'll call SDR1. These two Hermes will be for 50 and 144 MHz. This same machine would also run the Flex 5K and Metis/Mercury/Penelope for 222 and 432 MHz when a VHF contest is running. But during the VHF contest I would then drive the two Hermes from a second PC that I'll call SDR2 instead. Basically the flexibility I'm looking for is to be able to move the two Hermes from one machine to another easily and by just starting the two PSDR sessions on the appropriate PC as needed.

My thought is that if PSDR could be modified to allow explicit IPs to be specified for a particular Metis or Hermes piece of hardware. I could then have 4 installs of PSDR on one machine and 2 on the other. All of the individual PSDR installs/sessions being explicitly tied to a specific piece of hardware. As part of this the Hermes and Mets would each be assigned static IPs which is the only way I can see that this could work without any kind of name resolution in the Metis and Hermes hardware.

So just how crazy is this idea? Or how hard would it be to do?

73,
Duane
N9DG

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