Does the software really have to install a DHCP server ? I already have a DHCP server at home, and don't want another on my network.

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Rod, UK Mk2 64gig Red S/No.341 Empeg Looking to add a DELL Reciever

Aren't the boxes BOOTP? I didn't think that they held stateful information - if so, you're going to have to have the DHCP server, otherwise you'll get boxes with no OS....

Rob, Hugo, etc?

Paul.

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RioReceiver - Still Waiting for one in the UK.

It installs a DHCP server, yes. You can turn this off in the network setup box. The server will not respond to anything except Receiver boxes - it also lets another server serve the box first (ie, it only serves packets with secs>=5 and the correct vendor-unique ID field).

They're not BOOTP, no. A strange spin on uPnP is used to find the NFS server & portmapper port number.

Hugo

Is uPnP something that an old network card may not support ??

Thanks for explaining about DHCP, would be well worth putting in an FAQ, as many people would not want to run a DHCP server just for the RioReceiver.

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Rod, UK Mk2 64gig Red S/No.341 Empeg Looking to add a DELL Reciever

The uPnP resource location is just a UDP broadcast, there's no magic involved. The uPnP address allocation (done by win98, me, 2k, macos, and the receiever) is not network-card dependent either. If it can't find a DHCP server, it just picks a random address in a class B subnet and arps it to check noone else is using it.

Hugo