[mythtv-users] How do you reliably provide HDHR dhcp?

Kris B. krisbee at krisbee.com
Tue Oct 25 12:10:55 UTC 2011


On Tuesday, October 25, 2011 1:10 AM, "Mark Lord" <mythtv at rtr.ca> wrote:
> On 11-10-24 06:23 PM, John Finlay wrote:
> > Thanks to all who responded. I wasn't aware of how the 169.254.x.x 
> > networking worked but it seems everyone who responded mentioned that. 
> > What I ended up doing was attaching the two HDHRs to a 10/100 switch I 
> > had and uplinking that to a dedicated 10/100 NIC on my backend server. 
> > Since I use mythbuntu on the BE I had to edit that NIC's connection 
> > settings for IPv4 to use the Link-Local Only method.
> > 
> > Once this was setup I power cycled the BE, switch and HDHRs and started 
> > a bunch of recordings and then power cycled them all again. Everything 
> > came back up and the recordings all restarted. It all seems to work as 
> > desired so I think I'm ready for my next trip.
> 
> The "gotcha" with that scheme is that the HDHRs take a very long time
> trying DHCP over and over before they fall back to the 169.254.x.x
> addresses.
> If your mythbackend process starts up before the HDHRs finish config,
> then mythtv may not "see" them, and thus won't use them.
> 
> I wrote a shell script to poll for the HDHRs before allowing mythbackend
> to start up, avoiding the issue on my own system.
> 
> This is more of an issue on a fast-booting SSD-based backend
> than on a typical slow mechanical boot machine.  :)
> 
> Cheers
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If you wouldn't mind sharing the script, I would be grateful...

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