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pirey4
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15 years ago

Roku player responding to multiple IP addresses

One of my Roku players (runing 2.5 software) is responding to 2 different IP addresses. I initially ran across this using autodiscovery in my iPhone remote control app. I thought there was a bug in ...
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pirey4
Visitor
15 years ago
"RokuKevin" wrote:
This should not happen, but I'm just curious if it is possible one ipaddr is for wired and one for wireless?

--Kevin

I don't think so since the MAC address associated with both IP addresses is the same and it is the one for the wired port.

This happened again the other day but this time to my other Roku box. It only happens every now and then but often enough to get support emails asking why someones Roku Player is showing up on multiple IP addresses.
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    MrReis
    Newbie
    6 years ago

    I have a Roku Ultra that I set up to use the wired network and now it is using the wireless network and has two ip address (192.168.1.248 + 192.168.1.249) with the same MAC (D8:31:34:5B:AB:36). At some time I must have also had a wireless connection setup since the Roku device is now setup using the wireless network connection. I did not make he change from wired to wireless network connection on the Roku device.