Thanks very much everyone,  it is finally working and it is working great!

My problem was that I had 2 -- in front of the "dhcp-boot=...." commands of
the dnsmasq section. I had been researching this for a few days now and the
the post I had copied the "dhcp-boot=...." had the command as
"--dhcp-boot=...." When I saw Mr. O'Shaughnessy reply, I figured I would try
the commands without the 2 - in front and it worked.

Thanks again!!

On 5/30/07, Bob O'Shaughnessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I've got my mvpmc (along with everything else on my network) receiving
DHCP addresses from my sveasoft (http://www.sveasoft.com ) equipped WRT56G
router.

The Sveasoft firmware uses dnsmasq to run DHCP.

I did the following to get it all to work:

- Enabled TFTP on my MythTV box and set up the boot firmware (using a
symlink so I can play with different versions)
- Made a static reservation for the MVP on the router using the MVP MAC
address
- Enabled expert mode for dnsmasq on the WRT by SSH'ing in and issuing the
following commands:
     nvram set expert=mode=1
     nvram commit
     reboot
- Added the following lines to the dnsmasq advanced options window that
appears when you enable expert mode:
     dhcp-boot=dongle.bin.mvpmc,mythtv,10.100.1.10
     dhcp-option=42, 10.100.1.10
     (First line provides the boot file to BOOTP clients like the MVP (
dongle.bin.mvpmc), the hostname of the TFTP server (mythtv) and the IP of
the TFTP server ( 10.100.1.10)
     (The second line provides the NTP server option to DHCP clients so
that the MVP can sync time)
- Viola!  The MVP gets it's IP address, boot file locations and time
server info from the WRT and boots up every time.

Hopefully this helps and using DD-WRT you can configure similar options
into the DHCP server so you won't have to be in the bad situation of having
two DHCP servers on your net.

On 5/30/07, Carlos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I have been trying to look through the previous post of this list but I
> keep getting a "500 - Internal Server Error" page. So, I apologize if this
> has been asked before.
>
> I have setup a windows pc with dhcp and tftp server, tested it and is
> working, as my setup with workign with static ip addressing.
> http://www.mvpmc.org/windows/mvpmc_windoze_howto.html#s5
>
> I am wondering if anyone has managed to get a router working, running
> either dd-wrt or tomato firmware, with dynamic ip addressing. I started with
> the tomato version, tryed to setup access filters, etc but somehow the
> router would always respond to the mediamvp.
>
> Yesterday, I loaded dd-wrt on the router, and pretty much of the same. I
> cant get the router to ignore the mvp.
>
> Basically, if anyone has managed to get theirs to work with a similar
> setup, I would love to hear how you did it.
>
> Thank you
>
> <http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/>
>
>


--
Bob O'Shaughnessy
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://oshaughnessy.typepad.com

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