Rob Pimentel wrote: > Providing long enough > leases relieved my concern of not having the DHCP server > available when clients wanted to renew, since I won't > have my myth box up 24/7.
Eventually you're going to find that situation inconvenient. You might want to pick up a used WRT54G router, which can be found for under $50, and load custom firmware on it (like DD-WRT, pretty easy to install). You could have it replace your existing router, or just use it as a dedicated DHCP "appliance." Either way, it's a low-power solution that you can leave running. > My new DHCP server is handing out IPs nicely to both Windows & Linux > clients. ... I'm using static IPs for all of the clients. You mean you're having the DHCP server supply a consistent IP address to each host, based on their host name or MAC address? > However, it refuses to hand out an IP to the MVP. If you haven't gotten as far as booting firmware, how do you know it isn't working? > When I look at the router log, I see: > > [INFO] Fri Jul 04 19:29:34 2008 Access denied to LAN system > with MAC address <my MVP's mac address>. > > I do have MAC filtering enabled in the router... Usually MAC filtering is only used on wireless segments. Is your MVP a wireless model? If so, try getting it working with a wired connection first. > ...but I double-checked, and the MVP's MAC is allowed access. If this is a wireless MVP, are you using the correct MAC address? Each interface will have a different address. Your router still seems to think otherwise. I think you'll need to read up further on configuring your router, and see if there is some other rule or mechanism it also uses to exclude devices from the LAN. You'll also want to be keeping an eye on the DHCP log as you are experimenting to see if the IP address requests from the MVP are making it there. On a typical Debian/Ubuntu Linux system, this command ought to do that: tail -f /var/log/daemon.log > Am I having problems because I need to load the firmware before it > can get an IP? No, the bootloader built-in to the MVP will request an IP. Otherwise the MVP would have a catch-22 situation, as an IP address is needed to load the firmware. -Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Mvpmc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mvpmc-users mvpmc wiki: http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/
