On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Tom Metro
<[email protected]<tmetro%[email protected]>
> wrote:
> Dave wrote:
>
>> When I set up dhcpd on Ubuntu...
>>
>
> I recommend Dnsmasq rather than dhcpd.
>
Oh well, I had already installed dhcpd before I read your message. I hope
this isn't a mistake, but I didn't want to redo the tftp server setup. I'm
trying to minimize the variables and given that I have one MediaMVP working,
I do not want to change anything that would affect it.
>
>
> ...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.
>
You are right that my router will not allow this config.
>
> 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.
>
>
Very interesting. My router is a dual WAN Netgear FVS124G, so I think I'll
leave it alone for now. And I keep a server running all the time anyway, so
the Linux dhcp server option should be OK (as long as it doesn't increase my
network maintenance).
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