Tom Metro wrote:
> JASON BELL wrote:
>> ...a netgear dg834gt router which at the moment is my dhcp server...
>> ...if it is possible to have the router be the dhcp server for
>> the mvp...
>
> I think with a D3A hardware revision that is difficult to pull off, as
> the mvpmc startup code is dependent on the BOOTP server being specified
> via DHCP. (With the newer hardware it sends out a broadcast message to
> locate the boot server.)
>
>
>> ...i would like to have the router to be the dhcp server for the
>> desktop pc,laptop pc and diskstation. Then to setup a dhcp server on
>> the diskstation to serve the mvp.
>
> This can be done, though a little tricky. You need to set up the DHCP
> server on the Linux box to only hand out addresses for machines with a
> MAC address matching the MVP, and from an IP range that doesn't overlap
> with the IP range being handed out by your router. Although for this to
> work I think you also need to configure the router to specifically
> ignore the MVP, and your router's DHCP configuration probably isn't that
> flexible.
>
> In the end you may find it is just simpler to disable the DHCP server on
> the router and replace it with the DHCP server running on the Linux box.
>
I have done this by configuring my linux machine to dhcp the mvp, the
router also tries, I am not sure exactly why, but the linux machine does
win either because the dhcp for the router does not have all of the
proper information (tftp server) or because the linux machine answers
the DHCP request faster.
The linux machine is only doing dhcp for the MVP's mac address, and I
have the linux machine on both the routers 168.192.x.x network and on
the internal private 10.x.x.x network that the MVP is dhcped on by the
linux box.
Roger
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