[mythtv-users] enduser network config menu

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Mon Aug 6 03:08:30 UTC 2007


On Sunday 05 August 2007 20:56, Robert Johnston wrote:
> On 8/5/07, Matt Flax <flatmax at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Do you think it is possible to put a mythtv menu item which will bring up
> > a network config dialog tool ?
> > Has anyone done this ?
> >
> > I think it may be helpfull for easily finding the IPADDRESS of the mythtv
> > box when networked using DHCP ... also for altering wired/wireless
> > settings.
>
> You can display the system IP address with "Information Center" ->
> "System Status"

Or just ifconfig from a terminal prompt.

If you control your DHCP server, you can cause it to always assign the same IP 
address, based on the MAC address of the Myth network device.

Or just assign a static IP, the methods of doing so are included with every 
distro.

BEWW


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