| From: Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> | 1) It's WAD (Working As Designed). I'm doing what the instructions told | me to do. YES!!! There are indications that it will pay attention to DHCP. See, for example, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDHomeRun#General_details> last sentence, first paragraph. Of course it could be wrong. You could consider doing a tcpdump to see what the thing does when it is turned on. I don't know what you have as a dhcp server -- it is handy if it can run tcpdump. Still, enough of the protocol is broadcast that you should be able to get a clue whether the HDHR is DHCPing. There are also indications that it doesn't want the stream to be routed; it wants to be communicating only on the network segment <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HDHomeRun#Requirements> A little bit confusing. | 2) It's an ancient model, that does not allow setting a static IP address 2010 isn't ancient. The iproute2 was added to Linux perhaps 15 years ago. ifconfig has been emulated for a long long time. So anything you can do with ifconfig out to be possible with the ip command.
From ip(8): HISTORY ip was written by Alexey N. Kuznetsov and added in Linux 2.2.
| 3) The setup works fine under ifconfig; but not under ip (iproute2). | Gentoo recently changed to iproute2 as the default networking suite. | I have to over-ride the default to get it working again. I don't know what that means. I haven't looked. But I'm pretty sure that the kernel stuff hasn't changed recently. | 4) A change of the default is usually a precursor to eventually getting | rid of support for the old default alltogether. I want to get it | working under ip (iproute2) before Gentoo dumps support for ifconfig. As far as I know, "real" ifconfig is long gone. The documentation of the ip command is so terrible that I still use ifconfig.