Distributed Rendering problem - IP addresses

[mfured20]

Hey Guys.

I have been using DR for a couple of months now with SP2, and it has been working great until yesterday. The problem that has developed is that now, for some reason, my workstation can't see the slaves properly. When I go into the Settings tab and resolve my servers they come in with the wrong IP addresses. I have attached an image so you can see what I am talking about.
First of all, they are listed as having the same address, and second of all, I checked the IP addresses from the slaves themselves and they are what they are supposed to be [192.168.1.xx]. So, somewhere along the line, my Max / V-Ray lost sight of the network. The computers are still accessible thru windows itself, isolating the problem within max/vray.
Has anyone else had this problem? I did get a virus that I had to clean off of my computer somewhere along the line yesterday, but I am pretty sure this was happening before I picked it up. I restarted all of my computers and my router this morning to start from a clean slate, same issue. I dunno, maybe I will just try to reinstall vray and/or max.

Thanks!

[mfured20]

Update on my progress fixing the issue -

Well, I reinstalled both Max and V-Ray to no avail, so the problem must me elsewhere in my system. I would appreciate any vague ideas or suspicions that anyone has tho, I was really starting to enjoy using DR.

Thanks again!

matt

[palibebeh]

maybe, just maybe someone unplugged the network cables from your render slaves, and then plugged them back into different NIC? it's quite easy to do, if you have two NICs in your renderslaves. then, if the second NIC/network connection is not properly configured, it will assume automatic IP, which is not what vray DR likes.

edit: ok, just now I looked at the attached picture.
looks like the problem lies somewhere else, cause in the situation mentioned above the IPs for the slaved shoul at least start with 192.168...

strange indeed

[mfured20]

Yeah, its baffling to me. I think that I really messed my workstation trying to clean that virus off, and thats what did it. The computer has been limping along for a good while now, needing an OS reinstall. I will try that, start from scratch entirely. Or I will when my deadlines are up, and get by on strip renders until then. The strip rendering works fine through backburner, its like a corrupt DR file or something, but since I reinstalled I think that it should work fine. Very strange.