your momo;593419 Wrote: > DHCP can be as fast, as good and as easy you claim, it will not permit > to simply operate a SB and a NAS connected through a LAN switch while > Router and all is DHCP feature is either absent, broken or powered > off. > Here the only answer is fixed IP for both SB & NAS. This is used very > often by people who don't care about having their music system > connected to the rest of the world, they just want to listen to their > local library of music. > Sorry but I regret this choice has been dropped on the final Touch > release, the trick by disabling DHCP temporary or connecting to > somewhere else is really for geeks ... and I prefer to not comment > about the various implementation of the IP reservation based on MAC by > all various router brand.
I think if connected to such network, the player will offer setup with static unpluged or powered off router while setting up network. You may have to plug it in again later as the hairbrained setup guide force you to sign up to mysb.com with no obvius step to avoid that. Btw the easiest way and geekiest is to simply do the setup with dhcp and all and then ssh into the Touch's linux and edit the configuration files. My network is halfway like this My boom is goin to the server via a switch, so things can go pearshaped at the router (and it does all consumer routers crash sometimes) without my morning alarm be in danger. I will incorporate another switch soon so that my Touch can connect. to the server via switches only. Ofcourse DHCP can still be used in this setting to -If you have router and it's used- a short term problem in the router will be no problems as all clients will keep their dhcp'd settings at least untill next power on or when lease goes out . This is not rocket science either, networking via a switch or peer to peer computer directly to a Squeezebox for example, a bit unusual but not really harder to do than for example adding another mail account to Thunderbird . Squeezeboxes makes this harder than it should be and the Touch is not the main offender it is the duet with it's reciever, that one can be more problematic to get into static usually net::udap will be used when the controller menu's has bugged out. -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH and assorted amps SiriuS, Classe' Primare and Dynadio speakers, Contour 4 Contour Center, and Contour 1.3SE rear ch. Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: SB3 + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) PLEASE FIX BUG 112 http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=112 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=83424 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch