RE: MSS100 and CBus (was: How many PCs do you have at home?)

["Kevin Hawkins" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Mc Alinden [mailto:fmcalind@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 31 August 2004 10:00
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] MSS100 and CBus (was: How many PCs
> do you have at home?)
>
> Thanks for that Paul
>                                 Of course it was a piece
> of cake for me ...as normal i had probs but i think i got
> it set up ok now.....In the server / tcp ip setups  i
> unticked  the DHCP etc ??? hope thats correct.......Will
> find out next time i reboot........

Hi Frank,

The address that is setup there is the address the unit will occupy
even if rebooted (provided DHCP is disabled)  - there is  one thing that
might be an issue still though . The 'residual' address there may be the
one
that was allocated last time the unit booted using DHCP - and if so it is
now a static IP address but still in the range of the DHCP allocation. What
I mean by this is that your DHCP server has a 'pool' of addresses it can
allocate and you should never use these addresses as fixed addresses as
they
could conflict with dynamic allocated addresses. Do you know the range of
addresses that you DHCP server hands out ? (I don't know what your DHCP
server is) - if so if the new MSS100 address is within that range then move
it somewhere just outside of it -  any address will do as long as it is
UNIQUE on your network - but ONLY change the last group of digits though -
the ones at the right hand end ...

eg if the address is currently 192.168.1.240  and your DHCP server
allocates addresses  192.168.1.230 to 192.168.1.250 say then move the unit
to 192.168.1.229 (as long as this address is not already in use). You can
see if an address is currently free by 'pinging' it and if there is no
reponse then it is not currently in use. It is a good idea to keep a little
note of all your static IP addresses somewhere so you can allocate them
more
easily and without conflicts. People tend to group similar devices or areas
by address so for example addresses between 192.168.1.10 and 192.168.1.19
may be PC's and addresses between 192.168.20 to 192.168.1.29 may be Rio
audio players . The gateway often tends to occupy the .1 address eg
192.168.1.1

Having said all this if it works and you are uncomfortable with
further changes then leave it as is - if later you experience any problems
with the device or a new device you add that uses DHCP then bear in mind
this may well be the issue.

Kevin