RE: Re: DDAR....AGAIN!

["Broadfoot, Kieran J" <Kieran.Broadfoot@xxxxxxx>]

For what its worth I started playing with mine last night and the receiver
definitely picks up an IP address from a standard dhcp server.

thanks
kieran

p/s in case anyone is interested I have everything working except for a
slight problem nfs mounting the root partition to the unit.  Seems I might
have an issue with rpc on my linux box since I hardened it a while ago.  Im
planning on running it all up on solaris today or tommorrow so if any linux
peeps need any advice/help just shout.

-----Original Message-----
From: mail@xxxxxxx [mailto:mail@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 9:48 AM
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: DDAR....AGAIN!



> Based on the IP my DDAR gets it's getting DHCP information from my
> router.

Are you sure?  There's a setting on the server software (something
like 'enable autoconfiguration') that specifies a range of addresses
that receivers can use.  It was turned off when mine wouldn't work,
but there was another DHCP server running.  When I turned it on, by
default it stole half of 192.168.0.*  It presumably got that from the
IP settings of the PC I installed it on.  I've subsequently reduced
the range available and excluded them on the 'proper' dhcp server.

I'm not the worlds greatest IP expert, so I might be misinterpreting
something, but this seem a bit naughty to me (ignoring DHCP running
on the network and stealing addresses from it).

ALSO, if I am right, what's the point of having an autoconfigure that
you can turn off, but that stops it from working?

>
> Regards
>
> Ian Oliver
> Sunny Leeds, UK
> Using Java on Tini for control via Dallas 1-wire

Nick