On Thu, 11 Mar 2010, Chuck Hast wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:44, John <jandrade@jandrade.com> wrote:
>> For whatever is worth, you should know that if you happen to have both the
>> internet and tv with FiOS, the router they provide is also acting by default
>> as a DHCP server because the DVR boxes in your house need access to the
>> internet. This means that you must be careful if you decide to use your own
>> DHCP server like I do.
>> Since I have not been able to get into those nifty DVR boxes to change any
>> settings and since I do not trust something that an ISP gives me by default,
>> What I had to was setup the FiOS router as a DHCP relay and point it to my
>> linux server for address assignment.
>> **Note that you must setup your scope in the same IP subnet as that of the
>> DVR boxes which is 192.168.1.0/24 and as soon as you see that it works and
>> identify the DVR boxes' MACs setup address exclusions for these statically.
>> This worked for me.
>
> I assume that all you did was turn off the DHCP server in the FiOS router,
> you set your DHCP server on your linux box (dnsmasq?) with the above
> address space. I have a coupe of routers which I am using as router/
> switches, with the DHCP coming from another server on the network.
>
> Indeed I have a dedicated network for my security cams, dnsmasq is the
> dhcp server on my ZoneMinder box, the mac addresses in the cams are
> mapped to IP addresses, so when dnsmasq sees one it hands it a address.
> Also I have it setup so it will only talk to recognized mac addresses.
VZN's router is really slow about responding to DHCP requests, and has a
too-small IPMasq/NAT buffer. What I did was go from this:
-- MI-424WR -- LAN
'- cable box
to this:
-- WRT54G -- LAN
'- MI-424WR -- cable box
The WRT needs to clone the WRT's MAC, else VZN will cut off IP after a few
days. Oh yeah, I was running DD-WRT on the WRT.
No problem with NAT any more, and DHCP response is snappy.
I bought a spare MI-424WR planning to use it as a ... um ... thingy that
provides wired IP given only wifi. That. They've got DD-WRT ported to it,
but the install process seems nasty. I'm not sure if it can do that at any
rate. Maybe in my CFT I'll try it out.
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