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  • Making a VE Pro Clone Setup

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    I have a question. I have 2 identical setup in two rooms. Each room has 1 Mac (Logic is the host) and 2 PC slaves (running VE Pro Servers). I am using VE Pro in decoupled mode on the slaves and have to run this way because of the large load etc. I want to be able to open my Logic files in either room and have them connect to their respective slaves. Since it seems to be IP specific, when I open a Logic file in the other room, it tries to connect to the other slave machines (which it does). Now is there any way to force VE pro to look for a different server? The slave PCs have static IPs and I know that I can work around by changing the IPS on the slaves in the other room, but I can't have computers with the same IP on the same network at the same time. Any suggestions.
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    Perhaps your computers have 2 ethernet ports each. At least both my Mac Pro and my PCs have dual ports. You can then use one port for VE Pro only, and have a small gigabit network for each room. You then assign the same two static IP addresses to both sets of slaves. 

    The other ports are then connected to your main LAN across the rooms, for file transfers, internet etc. They can even have automatically assigned IP addresses via DHCP.

    I am curious to see however, if VE Pro will still connect to the computer in the other room though. I think you may have to make sure the computers also have the same "name" (the name comes up in the list of available servers in the VE Pro plugin in your host). 
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    The name actually doesn't matter. It is just an indicator for listing the available slaves. The connection is uniquely identified by the IP address alone.
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    Hi Dom, I did try this on the Mac. I have 2 unique Ethernet ports on the mac so I created a small network in one room. It works if I unplug the ethernet port to my main network. All the computers can see each other etc but interestingly, I can't see the slave PCs when I plug in the 2nd cable that connects to the main network. I'm not sure why. As soon as I unplug the cable going into the main network, I can see VE broadcasting. Kind of strange?
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    Is there any way to force VE pro to connect to new slaves?
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    @composer87 said:

    Is there any way to force VE pro to connect to new slaves?
    I don't think at the moment, but Karel has I think something up his sleeve regarding this. 

    I am sure you checked this, but have definitely got unique IP addresses for each computer? And have you set up the two ethernet ports separately in the Mac's system settings? It may be an idea to assign your "VE Pro network" under a different subnet: For example 192.168.1.1 for the mac, 192.168.1.2 for the slave. For your LAN you could give the Mac the address 192.168.0.1.
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    Thanks for your reply. I hope Karel has something up his sleeve). I tried a different subnet and was successful in getting the PC Slaves and Master to see each other, but since their IPs were different (192.168.0.1) they wouldn't open the files. It just took an extremely long time to open the file and they didn't connect to the slaves.
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    The upcoming update of VE Pro will have a proper connection timeout (one second per Server Interface plugin), so you will just have to reconnect the plugins after loading the master host project without the extreme waiting time.
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    If you currently have a lot of projects that need to open in both rooms you could keep the IP on your slaves the same as before, and put your LAN (internet, filesharing) on a different IPs and subnet. Perhaps that would be easier.