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I don't know if it will help, but on my laptop where I run roscore, I set this

export ROS_HOSTNAME=myIp
export ROS_MASTER_URI=http://myIp:11311

Maybe try ROS_HOSTNAME instead of ROS_IP.

Maybe you will find your answer on this page http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/NetworkSetup

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