<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">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">auto IP</a> address if no DHCP server is available". Instructions meant for Windows (different document) talk about assigning an IP address of <span class="Apple-style-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><div><br></div><div>-Dan</div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Dan Martin</div><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">GP Hospital Practitioner</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Computer Scientist</div><div><a href="mailto:ummar143@shaw.ca">ummar143@shaw.ca</a></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">(204) 831-1746</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">answering machine always on</div></div></div></div></div></div></span></div></span> </div><br></div></div></body></html>