FM IP address confusion

February 18, 201015 yr

I am running FMPa 10v3 on Mac OS X 10.6.2

Filemaker seems to be remembering previously used IP addresses in its network/IWP settings and messing up my ability to remotely connect. i.e. FM thinks its IP address is x.x.x.x when it is actually y.y.y.y

I am including the network pref pane and you can see there are 4 IP addresses. Only one of them is in use. I am only connected to one network. IWP wants to use the first IP address listed in the network prefs, but this is not a valid address. I have tried deleting Web.pref and all FM pref files, but can't fix it. It could be an OS X issue, but I can't figure it out.

Anyone have any experience with this?

February 19, 201015 yr

You have multiple ethernet adapters assigned on the OS Network prefs. - a feature known as multi-homing.

The 10.211 and 10.37 addresses arise from Parallels as I have the same IPs on my OS X 10.4.11 machine.

IWP wants to use the first IP address listed in the network prefs, but this is not a valid address

Your first IP address certainly looks like a valid IP address for a standard class C network with DHCP - however if it is not then you must re-assign the IP address on OS X prefs or delete the Ethernet port if it genuinely does not exist.

February 19, 201015 yr

Author

The first IP is valid, but not used. I did try deleting the ethernet ports previously and it didn't work. I'll look to see if there's anything else I can do along those lines. Yes I do have parallels.

Thanks

February 19, 201015 yr

Author

OK so I figured it out. After deleting the Ethernet Ports I checked Network Utility and it still showed Ethernet en0 with the IP address 192.168.2.1 which is not used (It was probably active a few weeks ago). I couldn't get rid of it even when I hooked up to an ethernet network using DHCP. I made a new Ethernet port and manually assigned 192.168.2.1 as the IP address. I then hooked up to an ethernet network and switched the manually assigned 192.168.2.1 to DHCP. It picked up a new IP address. When I disconnected from the Ethernet network and went back to WIFI, the ethernet IP address released.

So it was an OS X issue not FM.

Thanks for the help