Thanks to aubuti's prod, I'm attempting a static configuration. I'll
post back in a couple days on the results.

Here's an outline of what I did (before I forget!)

- On my router, I assigned a static IP address to the Squeezebox radio,
outside of the DHCP address space.

- I enabled remote login on the Squeezebox radio, and noted the
username and password for SSH.

- Windows 7 apparently has no built in SSH (I'm an old telnet guy,
never actually used SSH before) so I loaded PuTTY on my home PC.

- I used PuTTY to access the Squeezebox radio via SSH. Apparently its a
simple unix or linux based machine. I didn't look around much. Under
/etc/network I found the interfaces file. Mine looked like this:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

mapping eth1
script /etc/network/if_mapping

auto eth1=MySSID
iface MySSID inet dhcp
script /etc/network/udhcpc_action

- I replaced  the interfaces file with this one, note the IP addresses
depend on your specific network:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

mapping eth1
script /etc/network/if_mapping

auto eth1=MySSID
iface MySSID inet static
address 192.168.1.130
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.1
dns 192.168.1.1
up echo 'nameserver 192.168.1.1' > /etc/resolv.conf

I'm not familiar with "up echo" but I'm pretty sure this posts the DNS
address up to the resolv.conf file. Thanks to mvordeme for this "up
echo" idea. I was going to just manually edit the resolv.conf file.

- I then rebooted the radio (typed reboot and it worked). And then I
power cycled it. And double checked the changes.

Yes, this is easy for the average user. Hah.
I'll report back if this helps. I think I also have some wifi problems,
but maybe not. This should eliminate any DHCP as being an issue.

If anyone sees any errors in my setup for a static address, please let
me know.
Carl


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