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Q: 4 Apple TV's on my office network, Keep getting IP address conflicts with each other despite being assigned reserved addresses.

4 Apple TV's on my office network, Keep getting IP address conflicts with each other despite being assigned differnt reserved addresses in DHCP

While it seems like they realize it and correct themselves it means my network notifify me of the conflict and that can mean upwards of 30 emails a day... and over a long weekend that means 90 plus emails to delete after making sure it is the same 4 mac address having the problems... how can I make this go away

Posted on Jun 2, 2016 6:49 AM

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Q: 4 Apple TV's on my office network, Keep getting IP address conflicts with each other despite being assigned reserved addresses.

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  • by Diana.McCall,

    Diana.McCall Diana.McCall Jun 3, 2016 9:44 AM in response to SW11
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    Jun 3, 2016 9:44 AM in response to SW11

    Your AirPlay problem is a Bonjour problem. Are you running a Bonjour server on the router? With a complex network architecture, the multicast Bonjour discovery messages aren't propagated to all the nodes, so it helps to have something at the headend that's keeping track. That's why restarting an ATV can suddenly make it visible; it broadcasts its availability and the clients hear it, whereas when the client called for services the ATV didn't hear so didn't reply. Even in a simple single router setup, there have been problems routing those packets between wired and wireless subnets. I have experienced this: unreliable AirPlay  from WiFi iPad to wired ATV. Moving ATV to WiFi fixed this; so did a new router. I believe that issue is OBE with current routers, but the problem of a multi-branched network remains.

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