IP address error
Problem with bline. Dave installed the test_passoft suite for Hilda, at the q330 station in the lab. Test install ran OK, they had to update to Conda 4.9.0, Python 3.6.8, OS is MacOS Sierra 10.12.6. They got this error:
(test_passoft) [field@dhcp-10-10-11-192 junk]$ bline 5123 -b
2020-11-09 22:04:34 Command: /Users/field/PASSOFT_py3/envs/test_passoft/bin/bline 5123 -b
2020-11-09 22:04:34 BLINE 2020.202
2020-11-09 22:04:34 Working directory: /Users/field/Desktop/junk/
2020-11-09 22:04:34 Writing messages to: ./5123.msg
2020-11-09 22:04:34 Watching for baler 5123.
2020-11-09 22:04:34 (Ctrl-C to stop before the baler is found.)
2020-11-09 22:04:34 Press the ATTN button...
2020-11-09 22:05:29 Baler 5123 found...
2020-11-09 22:05:29 No free address found in 100 tries.
Bob said this: "That means that it tried pinging, for example, 192.168.0.1, .2, .3, .4... and kept getting a response which made it think that each address was in use. It only keeps adding 1 to the address of the host computer 100 times. That's never been seen, so it has to be a bug. Either the ping-part is returning the wrong thing or different than it used to, or maybe the ping command/code just isn't getting run correctly. Something like that. All of the Python Ethernet stuff is pretty touchy from one version to another of Mac/Linux/Win/Python." Bob's own version, v2020.254, works fine on that Mac/baler, so it's probably not the network profile or such.
(base) [field@dhcp-10-10-11-192 junk]$ bbline.py 5123 -b
2020-11-09 22:01:07 Command: /Users/field/bin/bbline.py 5123 -b
2020-11-09 22:01:07 BBLINE 2020.254
2020-11-09 22:01:07 Working directory: /Users/field/Desktop/junk/
2020-11-09 22:01:07 Writing messages to: ./5123.msg
2020-11-09 22:01:07 Watching for baler 5123.
2020-11-09 22:01:07 (Ctrl-C to stop before the baler is found.)
2020-11-09 22:01:07 Press the ATTN button...
2020-11-09 22:01:50 Baler 5123 found...
2020-11-09 22:01:51 Setting time in baler...
2020-11-09 22:01:52 Baler 5123 time set.
2020-11-09 22:01:53 Ping response received.
2020-11-09 22:01:53 Baler OK.
2020-11-09 22:01:53 Control computer IP address: 192.168.0.1
2020-11-09 22:01:53 Control computer netmask: 255.255.0.0
2020-11-09 22:01:53 5123 set to 192.168.0.2, port 4518, on en0