IP Address changed mid session!

rel04de

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Guys, hello!

Im tired! I just want to play my game with my friends!

All the time i open the game, i have this message!

im using Port Forwarding, static ip, everything is ok in my network, but just the ED doesn't work!

I open 2 tickets, and no resolution!

Someone can help?! Im tired!
 

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Esteban

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Shouldn't the "Internet Address" be your external IP, not your internal IP? It is for me.
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It is for me as well, but my router isn't in Symmetric mode. These settings (white-colored) are simply reported in the view we see there; you can't change them directly.
It does seem odd to me that the IP shown there would be the same as the "local address." IP addresses beginning with 192.168 are not used to define public address space, they're private. No computer from outside will be able to reach your computer using that address range* because it doesn't point to you at all and it's likely not unique. There could be a billion people using any address in that space but they're behind the wall called NAT.**

Perhaps if you were to try changing (if only temporarily) other settings a little bit you may learn something about where the problem lies. You can, for example, turn OFF port forwarding. You don't need it in all cases unless your router requires it. It should be harmless to try...

The first suggestion is also a lead I would investigate.

* unless something's really wrong
** Network Address Translation
 
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Ashnak

Ashnak
I don't know that much about networks, but there are a few things that strike me as strange here:
1) the use of an address out of the private IP range 192.168.x.x for the internet address
2) having the same address for both local and internet address
3) the last part of that address being "135". Those addresses are usually assigned automatically, and the DNS usually just counts up, so that would be 135 devices connected in your local network, which seems a bit excessive.

The MTU part below just indicates that you have no internet connection - the frontier servers simply can't reach your PC at 192.168.x.x. Question: are you on a company/private network, or a VPN? In the former case, you'd need to talk to your network admins - nothing FD or we here can do about that (ok, I can't - and those who do would be well advised not to state that publically, as that could more than slightly illegal). In the latter case, you may need to disable/bypass/tunnel that VPN for ED. FD support might be able to help you with that, but you'd probably have better chances in talking to your VPN tech support, or maybe both.
 

Esteban

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Ashnak said:
3) the last part of that address being "135". Those addresses are usually assigned automatically, and the DNS usually just counts up, so that would be 135 devices connected in your local network, which seems a bit excessive.

The MTU part below just indicates that you have no internet connection - the frontier servers simply can't reach your PC at 192.168.x.x. Question: are you on a company/private network, or a VPN? In the former case, you'd need to talk to your network admins - nothing FD or we here can do about that (ok, I can't - and those who do would be well advised not to state that publically, as that could more than slightly illegal). In the latter case, you may need to disable/bypass/tunnel that VPN for ED. FD support might be able to help you with that, but you'd probably have better chances in talking to your VPN tech support, or maybe both.
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3): This is entirely plausible without being disturbing. Most routers allow you to specify an IP address range for DHCP to hand out. This allows you do a couple of things including limiting the number of devices that can connect to your LAN. This means that private IP addresses don't necessarily begin at 192.168.x.1.
...and I believe that you meant to say DHCP rather than DNS. Domain name servers don't assign IP addresses to devices on your local network, that's DHCP's job. Apologies if I misunderstood your intent.

Numerous possibilities, of course. The advice to investigate settings if you are using a VPN is certainly among them. Much of that is outside my knowledge; I simply haven't fiddled with VPNs yet.
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OP: your initial post doesn't reveal much about your network (this is wise!). This makes it more difficult for us to suggest tactics that could lead to a solution, or to suggest ones that make sense in your situation. We also don't know your skill level.

One more that I can offer:
If your gateway/modem includes a router (many do), it should be safe to temporarily plug your PC into one of the LAN ports (it should still be protected behind the gateway/modem's NAT and firewall). This test would allow you to narrow-down the location of your problem to either "your" part of your home network or the ISP/gateway/modem. Keep in mind that it may not be as simple as just moving your network cable from your router to the gateway/modem. If you are indeed using a VPN, you may have to modify/simplify settings associated with that (temporarily go without the VPN if possible). If this isn't possible, I think you should start talking to the person who set up your VPN/network, etc.
My apologies if this suggestion ignores the fact that you're using WiFi to connect your PC. That means you'll either have to find a cable or now configure the WiFi included on your gateway/modem.

Keep us up to date, @rel04de. It helps us too - and we just want to get you playing with your friends again. :)
 

Cmdr Nemo

Cmdr Nemo
Until 0600 to day, I've not been able to access any links to frontier development. Though I've got hundreds of book marks and all of them worked as designed. Only frontier's didn't. I even tried a few different browser's and search engines to no avail. In addition, when booting the game I would get one of two load screens, one was the normal launch and the other was a logon screen that would let me logon. Though only one was ever visable, both showed up in task manager.
Even after I got on, I had such sever lag that it would take 5 minutes to exit hyper into the stations instance.
For what ever reason, when I turned on my pc this A.M. Everything worked as normal. Perhaps I was just dreaming, or perhaps I was being attacked by Tribbles. But it's working now.
 

Terekhov

Terekhov
I'm a senior network engineer IRL. Unfortunately a some well meaning but misleading advice above. I don't have a lot of time to post, so please forgive the brief comments in this post. Also note that I am making some fairly safe assumptions below.

From the error message, it's not 100% clear which IP addressed changed. I'd be >95% sure that they are talking about your External IP address.

What makes the external address change? Your Internet connection might have dropped and reconnected, or your ISP might have issued a new IP address on mid-usage (very unusual). Simply Googling "IP address" will tell you what your IP address is. If you write that down before starting ED and check it if you get an error, you will be able to see if it has changed. If it has changed unexpectedly, then speak you your ISP. (If you reboot your router, your IP address is likely to change, and is normal). If that IP does change, then youly your IPS will be able to help and advise what is happening.

I see mention of VPNs above. Despite what you may read elsewhere, do NOT use VPNs with ED. ED makes use of networking techniques that do not work well with ED.

MTU has NOTHING to do with 'whether your internet is working'. It's NOT this issue ( I can think of some fringe cases where it might affect some things, but not this).
I doubt that DNS or DHCP has anything to do with this issue.

General good advice - wherever possible user a wired connection to your router, particuarly wean gaming.

You say that you have set a static IP address, I assume that statc IP is on on your PC within your network? (not a Static IP issued by your ISP).
 
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