jdoering;497539 Wrote: > Yes DHCP reservation. And it will allow you to know the IP address in > advance so you can do your hostname to IP mapping via a hosts file, > configuration on your router, etc. > > Nothing against static IP of course; but if there are problems or > complications doing that I'm failing to see significant downsides to the > DHCP reservation approach. It accomplishes the same thing only on the > router side.
A number of us who own Controllers saw significant improvement in reliability after reconfiguring them to use truly static IPs. In my case, I have two, and both had reliability problems until I configured *one* of the two to use a static IP. They've both been fine ever since. DHCP reservation *should* be a viable alternative to static IP (especially if you can set very long lease expiration times), but unfortunately it's not always the case. For Controller, I suspect that some power saving code may complicate matters -- perhaps when waking up from a power-saving mode it wants to renew its lease? I don't know, I never bothered debugging at the packet level since configuring a static IP was easier than debugging and apparently solved the problem. -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ Free plugins: 'AllQuiet' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/AllQuiet.html) 'Auto Dim/AutoDisplay' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/AutoDisplay.html) 'BlankSaver' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/BlankSaver.html) 'ContextMenu' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/ContextMenu.html) 'FuzzyTime' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/FuzzyTime.html) 'KidsPlay' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/KidsPlay.html) 'KitchenTimer' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/KitchenTimer.html) 'PlayLog' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/PlayLog.html) 'PowerCenter/BottleRocket' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/PowerCenter.html) 'SaverSwitcher' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SaverSwitcher.html) 'SettingsManager' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SettingsManager.html) 'SleepFade' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SleepFade.html) 'StatusFirst' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/StatusFirst.html) 'SyncOptions' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SyncOptions.html) 'VolumeLock' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/VolumeLock.html) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ peterw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2107 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72803 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
