Networking question here.

I'm using Dante (which is an audio over ethernet thing). This is on a Mac Tower running 10.7.5. In the system pref's I set up a manual IP on Ethernet port 1 (there are two hard ports on this computer). The second port has nothing connected. The Wi-fi is for internet.

The manual IP address is 192.168.0.55. When I connect it to the mixer the virtual sound card says the IP address for that port is 192.168.2.2. If I go to terminal, and do an "ifconfig", it tells me this:

en0: flags=8863 mtu 1500 options=2b ether 00:17:f2:01:f9:32 inet6 fe80::217:f2ff:fe01:f932%en0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 inet 192.168.2.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255 inet 192.168.0.55 netmask 0xffff0000 broadcast 192.168.255.255 media: autoselect (1000baseT ) status: active

Tech support says I have a VLAN running that is configured wrong. I, for the life of me, can not find how to turn OFF a VLAN I do not recall creating. Any thoughts? Ideas? Observations?

The Dante is working, it's just a head scratcher. Wanna make it right.

shrift, I use a mix of Google Drive, Dropbox, and OneDrive for documents. Between the three of them I have more than enough free space for everything in the "if this gets lost things are sad" category, and a few things I have hacked to back up in two of the three. I don't back up everything, only things that would be devastating to lose.

My music is backed up to Google Music, so I don't back it up elsewhere, and movies (mostly ripped myself) are only backed up on my local NAS because even though I like collecting videos I long ago realized that I don't really watch them much and if they all disappeared the world would not end, so it's not worth paying for cloud space to store them. I use the free Crashplan software to sync with the NAS, and love it; honestly, if you want an all-in-one backup system in the cloud, Crashplan Paid would be my vote over Carbonite.

Pictures automatically upload to dropbox from my phone, then get transferred to Google Drive as need be for space issues; we have infinite space on Drive with Google Apps for Education, but before we inherited that we just paid $2/month for 100GB to back up pictures. I upload personal videos to YouTube when I need to clear space; mark them private and essentially use it as backup. Since I only take videos with my phone, the quality reduction is not a big deal to me.

omnis, this might help.

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It has a few parameters you might find useful using networksetup from Terminal.

Examples:

-createVLAN

-deleteVLAN

-listVLANs

-listdevicesthatsupportVLAN

I've started using Mega for storing media in the cloud since it comes with 50GB free. I don't know much about the company though, so I don't store any personal pics or docs.

I have all macs, so I pay $1/month for some iCloud space and mostly just try to remember to hook up an external drive for timemachine every so often

I think I do like meara? I don't remember what I signed up for, but something along those lines.

Thanks DCJ. It looks like that's for 10.9. I'm running 10.7.5. I've tried the commands, and it keeps coming up "command not found". There is a strong possibility I'm doing something wrong. I even tried logging in as administrator into Terminal. Same "command not found".

Poking around more, I found VLAN pref's in SYSTEM PREFERENCES>NETWORK>gear thingie>MANAGE VIRTUAL INTERFACES. Sure enough, there are NO virtual networks created.

How can a port have two IP addresses?!?!

:: shakes wee fist at the gods ::

This machine has 2 network ports. I've switched to the second. I give up. Too many fish to fry.

If anyone knows how/why a VLAN appears to be set up, although not in the pref's, and how to remove it, I'm happy to accept your help in erradicting the gremlin. But I'm not wasting anymore work time chasing ghosts.

Factory reset my phone after the lollipop upgrade frelled the battery life and caused it to overheat from doing just about anything. Dear god I have a lot of apps to reinstall. (It's automatically restoring itself so all I have to do is wait, but it's taking foreeeeeevvvvvveeeeerrrrrrr.)

Also just realizing how much I depend on Lastpass and logging into shit with Facebook! So until those two reappear I kind of can't do anything.