Hi Chris,

1) You shouldn't need to set ROS_MASTER_URI in a roslaunch file
2) You need to set ROS_IP in your shell for the machine you run
roslaunch from. Any ROS_IP settings in your launch file are for
*remote* machines.
3) You can avoid having to use ROS_IP if you are able to just setup
your network to use hostnames properly, e.g. by adding entries to
/etc/hosts.  The reason why you don't see ROS_IP used much in other
setups is because they probably have configured their networks.

 - Ken

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 1:04 PM, chris_li <gang.li@okstate.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi Ken,
>
> If I want to set ROS_IP in my shell, I think I can not write in my ~/.bashrc
> since it is ignored in roslaunch, does it mean that I have to write in my
> setup.sh ?
>
> In my launch file, I have been using:
>
> <env name="ROS_MASTER_URI" value="http://192.168.1.122:11311"> and
> <env name="ROS_IP" value="192.168.1.100 or 122">
>
> to set ROS_IP and ROS_MASTER_URI,  but they do not seem to be recognized.
>
> I noticed that in other posts for multiple roslaunch, people do not set
> ROS_MASTER_URI or ROS_IP.  Is it the right way? I am kinda lost here.
> ~
> Chris
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