Cheap Gigabit switch will allow DHCP thru it?

[Jarod Wilson]

On Saturday 29 December 2007 01:01:06 pm Ben Scott wrote:
> On Dec 29, 2007 12:31 PM, Bruce Labitt <bruce.labitt at verizon.net> wrote:
> > I'm looking to add another hdhomerun tunerbox to my myth setup.  I have
> > a DHCP server running to give the existing tuner its IP address.  Can I
> > add a cheap gigabit switch to add the other tuner?
[...]
>   What the right thing to do is depends on how MythTV finds the HDHRs. 
>  I seem to recall that MythTV uses a broadcast packet to find the
> HDHRs.  If that is the case, the IP address of the HDHR won't matter
> -- the broadcast packet will reach both of them, and MythTV will have
> to tell them apart.

You can have mythtv find and hdhr a few different ways. If you only have one 
on your network, you can just throw in a broadcast mac address of ffffffff. 
If you've got more than one, you need to either specify them by ip address or 
actual mac address. If you're worried that their ip addresses will change, 
just use their mac addresses. (mythtv 0.20.x may only work with mac addresses 
anyway, can't recall when the ip-based option was added).

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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com