Howard Passman;309417 Wrote: > > > I did find when I didn't do this that my two receivers would somehow > compete for the same address. This created an hour of havoc trying to > make the two recievers work at the same time. They shouldn't do that > and I have no idea why they did, but the second receiver would steal > the first receivers address. Drove me nuts for alittle while. >
Many if not most routers have a pretty deficient DHCP server: it believes it contains a full active picture of the network, which a real DHCP server is required to do (ie, run ISC DHCP and it will write out the leases periodically just in case the server crashes so it can return to a known state), and they are at least encouraged to ping an IP before they issue it to make sure it is really available... But your $40 router doesn't do that, and doesn't even save the leases to flash... so if it reboots, it is all first come first serve what it gives out. And some devices are smart enough to ask for their old IP back, which the router will gladly give them, even if it gave the same IP to another device just before it rebooted. Annoying. -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48366 _______________________________________________ squeezenetwork mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/squeezenetwork
