I have to report that lately when used MAC + Dante card and connected form Control Network to iDR’s Network as usual i had no problems when used only iDR, but soon as i have connected Surface to ACE i got network collision.
i can describe my setup more detailed if needed.
Also to much problems with connecting editor to setup iDR+Surface i have 'firmware version error report after i am connecting editor , when working only with iDR no problems. Were was couple of times then i got my surface lost connection to stage box after plugging the router in to the Network.
please don’t post about network addresses, firmware versions installed, multicast, every piece of equipment was correctly named and updated .
My suggestion is to isolate the iLive network from the Dante network on two physical networks. Based on your answer, it seems you are sharing the network for both.
My suggestion is to isolate the iLive network from the Dante network on two physical networks. Based on your answer, it seems you are sharing the network for both.
Dante can work perfectly on the same subnet as the iLive network (not ACE). We do it all the time, never had any issue.
There must be another reason.
Also, Robert never said that he connected Dante to the iLive network, he said only Dante Control network.
Maybe Robert could experiment using a gigabit router to route things together rather than the built in network switch of the IDR.
Is your macpro (dante) also connecting via wifi? If so try turning its wifi off as you may have an address conflict. Another suggestion- disconnect the Dante control network - IDR link as dburris suggested to see if the collision problem is fixed - you could try connecting the dante control direct to your D-Link AP. I seem to remember having a similar problem once. Just suggestions so don’t shoot me down!
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Richard Howey
Audio Dynamite Ltd
IDR48/IDR16/T112/R72/Mixpad,Tweak,
Dual M-Dante/DVS, 17"MBP/Logic 9/Custom Mackie Control
Thanks Stix! in MacPro i Have disabled Airport, but my AP DLINK-DAP-3520 Has only one RJ-45 connector so i am using SICO switch to connect everything to network.
I’m not sure if this will help, but the ‘Network Collision’ text printed by the red LED on the unit is actually incorrect. Newer units have a warning triangle with the text ‘Net Bridge’. What the LED actually means is that the bandwidth on the ACE link reserved for bridged control network data (around 10 megabits), has been exceeded. When this happens, packets that are trying to be sent accross the link are dropped. This has no effect on the audio at all. There are counters to indicate how many packets are being dropped in mixer setup, mixer preferences, port A/B, and pressing ‘advanced’ in the Port A ACE pane.
Just thought I would clear this up, as ‘Network Collision’ doesn’t really mean anything, and might put you on the wrong path.
Thanks Jeff! this seems to me optimal logical explanation for what happened to my setup, but does it have the cure? because this problem then it not solved have negative effect on all network and slows it down.
I had the same problem, tried 2 different routers with gigabit ports. No luck. Since then I keep the dante traffic on a separate router. I don’t understand why it does that. As soon as I connect, router crashes and communication stops. I also have the same red light.
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Thanks Jeff! this seems to me optimal logical explanation for what happened to my setup, but does it have the cure? because this problem then it not solved have negative effect on all network and slows it down.
My understanding is that in the current Dante firmware, all three ports are actually the same. The next firmware version will prevent Dante audio traffic being sent out of the Control Network port, so that this port can be connected up to the iLive network without issue. You may find that if you do not use multicast streams in the Dante network, no audio traffic gets transmitted out of the Control Network port anyway, as unicast traffic should be routed properly by the Dante card’s on-board Ethernet switch. Of course if you have an isntance of DVS or some other Dante device connected up via the iLive network ports, Dante audio traffic will then be routed into the iLive network, potentially exceeding the ACE net bridge bandwidth limit, whether it is made up of unicast flows or not.
You could experiment by just setting up a couple of Dante audio flows, while monitoring the advanced ACE status data I mentioned in my previous post. If the audio traffic is ending up being routed to the iLive network, you should see the Net Bridge (I think it’s called aggregation port in the GUI) RX packets and RX bytes counters increase dramatically. You could then try altering where things are plugged in or the type of flows being created by Dante Controller, and seeing if you can stop these packets getting onto the iLive network.