doggieflyer;316077 Wrote: > > Putting on my generic user hat, Logitech needs to simplify network > handling because most users won't know DHCP from ABC. I'd have no clue > that I was running two DHCP servers if I didn't have a bit of networking > experience in my day job. > > I imagine my setup is not unusual. I have a DSL router supplied by > Verizon. It provides DHCP by default. You connect your computers to > the router and they automatically gain a dynamic IP and connect to the > internet, usually behind a default firewall built into the router. > Most users will change nothing. I added on a wireless router when I > got a wireless laptop. Plug it in and it all works together. > > Given this scenario, consumers aren't going to know the merits of > disabling DHCP on the wireless router. They go buy Squeezeboxes, get > frustrated and return them.
No offence, but what exactly do you expect Logitech to be able to do about it ? DHCP was invented to simply networking for the average user. The discovery mechanism that the SBs use (and which only works on a single subnet) was designed to make things easier for the average user. They provide a fallback mechanism (of entering the server's address manually) for those unusual cases where there are more than one subnet. >From my understanding of the DHCP protocol there isn't likely to be a foolproof way of detecting that more than one DHCP server is active. And even if there was the best the SB could was was say "help" and leave the user to sort out the mess. A network with more than one DHCP server fighting over the same address space is broken and I don't see how Logitech can fix that*. * I guess they could make a change to the server discovery mechanism that the SBs and SBC use, but it is hard to see a sensible change to make. It currently uses broadcasts, if you wanted to make it work without fail across subnets and firewalls then I guess you'd have to make SBR, SB, SBC and SC all go out onto the web to a SlimDevices server and register their presence with each other there. Even then it is hard to see how you would make it work, as it would be a nightmare to determine which collection of SBR, SB, SBC and SC came from which network. Even if you got that side it it to work there is no guarantee they would be able to talk to each other on such a network even once they had discovered each other. The only other way would be to dump TCP, DHCP et al and take the propriety route. I think it is pretty clear that would lose them more current users than it would gain them. -- andynormancx Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze as well. What ? I SAID ALL OF THEM ! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ andynormancx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17417 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49358 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
