[mythtv-users] HDHomerun and network problems?

[R. G. Newbury]

Andrew Close wrote:
> On 10/19/07, Jay R. Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 01:56:38PM -0500, Mitch Gore wrote:
>>>    I tried to move my HDHR off the network but couldn't figure out how to set
>>>    up a dhcp server on just that interface. Does anyone know how i can bridge
>>>    the two Ethernet cards so i pulls a DHCP address from my router?
>> No, but I'm pretty sure you can put dhcpd up and tell it only to listen
>> to that private interface.  You want it on a separate subnet, anyway.
>> You can't static address the Homerun?
> 
> unless it's changed in the last two weeks, the HDHR uses DHCP only.  i
> just bought one and will be attempting to set it up directly off my
> MythBox too.  the docs on the silicondust website state DHCP...

It will actually work with a static address, although I cannot remember 
exactly how that is done.
Instead, what I did was to turn on DHCP on the router (it's a Netgear), 
allow the router to assign the DHCP address (the first one in the 
allowed range, nothing else using DHCP), then I allocated or reserved 
that IP address to the MAC address of the HDHR. Without shutting down, I 
then adjusted the allowed DHCP range to exclude the IP assigned to the 
HDHR. The HDHR continued to work, so then I turned off the DHCP server 
on the router...The whole setup has gone through a couple of power 
cycles at each end (HDHR and router) and together (local power outage) 
but the router continues to re-allocate the same, effectively static 
address to the HDHR, even though there is no DHCP server running.

This depends upon the capabilities of the router BIOS. The Netgear has 
more capabilities in this area than the Linksys at work does natively or 
with DD-WRT..

Geoff