Brian Ritchie wrote: > So, where am I going wrong? Is the number 99 sacrosanct in some secret > way? Maybe power cycling the whole house isn't so far off?
My solution to the world of problems is to install a DHCP server on a random computer in the house, wire the MAC addresses to fixed IP addresses, and turn off the router's DHCP server. This lets you control which box gets which IP address. You can even run bind/named locally, and resolve names to the now fixed IP addresses. There is a bit of a chicken and egg problem here, you have to make the DHCP server have a fixed IP address. I bet really smart people can make this all work with Windows, its fairly easy with any Linux distro, I did it first with mandriva, then Ubuntu and now pure debian. Some routers let you assign fixed IP addresses to specific MAC addresses, so if you have one of them, you don't need the Linux server. Of course, SlimServer/SlimCenter runs great on wimpy boxes that can't run modern Windows, so you can move everything to one server. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
