MVallevand wrote:
> No dhcp server, but they do have proprietary bootp...

So the Hauppauge and SageTV server software includes a bootp service? 
That would make sense, as it could be ran on a network with DHCP already 
running and not interfere.

Presumably the bootp client built-in to the MVP bootloader firmware is 
standards compliant, otherwise it wouldn't work with the bootp services 
built-in to most DHCP services that run on Linux.

Given that bootp servers are available independent of DHCP servers, I 
wonder why the mvpmc howtos didn't recommend installing that, rather 
than supplanting the DHCP server on the LAN, which seems to be a 
down-side for many users.


> ...so this still points to dhcp problems.

Yes, to the extend that dhcpd is the one responding to the bootp packet. 
I checked out the ISC DHCP website and didn't see anything indicating 
you need to do anything special to enable bootp functionality. (Their 
FAQ mentions something you need to do for v2.2 era Linux kernels, but 
that's pretty old and probably outdated.) I couldn't put my hands on a 
man page quickly, but ran across this page:

http://www.netbsd.org/docs/network/netboot/dhcpd.html

which describes how to enable debugging output from dhcpd, and shows 
examples of it logging a BOOTP packet exchange.

  -Tom

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