Dave wrote: > When I set up dhcpd on Ubuntu... I recommend Dnsmasq rather than dhcpd.
> ...do I need to disable the DHCP server on my router? Or can two DHCP > servers exist on the network? (Google shows conflicting opinions...) You'll find conflicting recommendation on this list as well. Apparently the DHCP servers that run on Linux machines tend to respond faster than the ones on consumer routers, and the client will listen to whichever server responds first, so you can get away with having two servers with overlapping scope and it'll apparently work. The right way to do it is to configure your existing DHCP server to not respond to requests from the MVP boxes (using some rule), which is usually impossible to do on consumer routers, so you need to turn off DHCP on the router and replace that functionality. If you don't like the idea of having your LAN be dependent on a service running on your MythTV server (which you may not keep running all the time), you can run one of the open firmwares (DD-WRT, OpenWRT) on a consumer router, which you can use as a dedicated DHCP/DNS appliance, leaving your current router in place. DD-WRT, for example, runs Dnsmasq, and has a web-based GUI for setting it up. -Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. Attend in-depth sessions from your desk. Your couch. Anywhere. http://p.sf.net/sfu/redhat-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Mvpmc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mvpmc-users mvpmc wiki: http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/
