Static IP Possibility

[yeyeto2788]

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a = (1,2,3)

creates a 3-tuple (a tuple with 3 elements). If we have a function which expects a 3-tuple as an argument we can call it with either of:

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func(a)
func((6,7,8))

Thanks for clarification. Now it makes sense for me I'm not an expert on programming.

Thanks also everyonefor the help on this.

[timotet]

Hi Guys,
I am trying to write a tcp server and set it up with a static ip.
Ultimately I would like to have a couple of esp8266 modules as server and client trade info.
I configured it the same way the above post does, but cannot get the client to connect.
I am just using netcat or my phone to try and connect now.
I can get the client to connect every time if I use the router issued ip address.
I have a couple of questions and I'm sure the answers are simple.

1st question is for the ifconfig() tuple.
What is a valid static IP address? Could I use something like '217.0.0.1'?

What should the DNS address be? When I use the router issued ip and use ifconfig() to get info about it
the DNS address is always the same as my internal ip address. Does this matter for this application.
The example in the docs shows '8.8.8.8'.

If I understand correctly I should set it up like this example:

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n = network.WLAN(network.STA_IF)
    n.active(False)
    n.active(True)
    n.ifconfig(('217.0.0.1','255.255.255.0','INTERNAL_IP','DNS_ADDRESS'))
    n.connect('SSID', 'PASSWORD')

Which is what I've done to no avail.
Thanks any help is much appreciated.
Tim

[yeyeto2788]

Hi Guys,
I am trying to write a tcp server and set it up with a static ip.
Ultimately I would like to have a couple of esp8266 modules as server and client trade info.
I configured it the same way the above post does, but cannot get the client to connect.
I am just using netcat or my phone to try and connect now.
I can get the client to connect every time if I use the router issued ip address.
I have a couple of questions and I'm sure the answers are simple.

1st question is for the ifconfig() tuple.
What is a valid static IP address? Could I use something like '217.0.0.1'?

What should the DNS address be? When I use the router issued ip and use ifconfig() to get info about it
the DNS address is always the same as my internal ip address. Does this matter for this application.
The example in the docs shows '8.8.8.8'.

If I understand correctly I should set it up like this example:

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n = network.WLAN(network.STA_IF)
    n.active(False)
    n.active(True)
    n.ifconfig(('217.0.0.1','255.255.255.0','INTERNAL_IP','DNS_ADDRESS'))
    n.connect('SSID', 'PASSWORD')

Which is what I've done to no avail.
Thanks any help is much appreciated.
Tim

Hello Tim,

What I did was to look for the DNS Address directly on my router and I found two possible DNS. I tried with the first one and it didn't work, the second one was good enough to connect from my phone on Mobile Network (No WIFI).

You may use also something like this https://ipleak.net/ to detect you DNS, I didn't really test all available values for the IP Address but I think it should be OK as long as it matches the parameters

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(xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)

.

Maybe someone on the MicroPython Community can clear this out for us (cuz now I'm more curious about it).

Take into account that I'm not an expert on Networking or Micropython.

Regards.

[deshipu]

1st question is for the ifconfig() tuple.
What is a valid static IP address? Could I use something like '217.0.0.1'?

A valid static IP address is any address that your router is set up to route (they usually do 192.168.0.0/24 on the internal network, you can setup additional routes) and that will not be given by the router's DHCP server to any other device (so outside of the configured DHCP range).

What should the DNS address be? When I use the router issued ip and use ifconfig() to get info about it
the DNS address is always the same as my internal ip address. Does this matter for this application.
The example in the docs shows '8.8.8.8'.

The DNS address should point to any server that has a running DNS service that you would like to use. Routers usually have their own DNS service running, that just forwards all requests to the DNS servers configured on the router, so you can probably use the same address as the gateway here. The 8.8.8.8 address is a DNS service run publicly by Google.

[timotet]

deshipu
Thanks for the concise answer!

I will try again when I am home.