Well, how do you connect to the Internet at home? Through some kind of wired or wireless router? Often, they have a DHCP server built-in and enabled by default, and your tuner box may get one from there. If that was the case, you could check the web interface of the router to see which addresses it handed out, and probably the only one would be for your new tuner device.<div>
<br></div><div>Kevin<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Dan Martin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ummar143@shaw.ca">ummar143@shaw.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word">I am wondering how I can connect my Mac to a device over ethernet, when I have no control over the device's IP address.<div><br></div><div>I recently purchased HDHomeRun, a dual TV tuner that connects via ethernet. The idea of it is to be able to stream video content to any machine on your network.</div>
<div><br></div><div>My network has static IP addresses, so just plugging it into the hub and searching for the device does not work. I understand that it is a DHCP client. There is no documentation with the device, such as a default IP address if one exists.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I will only use the video on one machine at present, my Mac. Wikipedia indicates that the device "will also work via an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link-local_address" title="Link-local address" target="_blank">auto IP</a> address if no DHCP server is available". Instructions meant for Windows (different document) talk about assigning an IP address of <span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:10px">169.254.x.x to the network interface.</span><div>
<br></div><div>I am far from clear on how that works. If the NIC I use to attach the HDHomeRun has such an IP address, does the HDHomeRun know to configure itself with a similar address? The Mac's network preferences GUI allows 4 choices: DHCP, DHCP with manual address, BootP, and Manual. None of these seems to work.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I can't even be sure if the device works - but LEDs come on.</div><div><br></div><div>Does anyone have suggestions, other than changing my entire network to DHCP? Can you have some nodes on a network get addresses by DHCP while others are static?</div>
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