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On Tue, May 15, 2012, at 06:25 PM, Joseph Fry wrote</div>
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I am not suggesting that you assign an IP to the HDHR at all... statically or using DHCP. If the HDHR doesn't get a DHCP response, it will pick a random IP in the 169.254.x.x range (read up on Link Local addresses here: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link-local_address">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link-local_address</a>) This is true of most network devices today to conform with zero configuration networking (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_configuration_networking">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_configuration_networking</a>).<br />
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The advantages of doing this are several:<br />
1. <u>no</u> configuration of the HDHR... <u>at all</u>... just plug it in<br />
2. you may not need to do any configuration on the server either... depends upon your distro.<br />
2. no requirement that the server be on before the HDHR... it doesn't care, it's not using DHCP.<br />
3. no need to worry about your server being connected to your LAN accidentally and issuing IP's to the rest of the network (done that before when I confused cables in rats nest on and a test lab dhcp server started issuing addresses to a~1000 node production LAN... not pretty)<br />
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The only disadvantage, as Eric stated, is it will take a minute or so longer after powering on the HDHR before it is addressable, however I never turn mine off... so that's what,a minute every few months?</blockquote>
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That is what I meant by Static IP, sorry... I set up an ethernet card as 169.254.1.2 and while the HDHR worked, after three days, it would stop working and I would have to power cycle the HDHR... I have the single tuner version and the latest firmware. I don't know if I just have an oddball HDHR or what, but I even tried touching the HDHR every few days to exclude that from possibility. When I use DHCP, no issue.</div>
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