Re: Ceton InfiniTV 4 Tuner Sharing via Network Bridging

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October 21, 2010 at 12:38 am #1771
mikinho
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    [quote=”tcs2tx”]
    I don’t understand.  Can you please elaborate how this will work when setting up network bridging on the host machine (with the InfinitiTV installed) and the client machine (accesing tuner(s) of the InfiniTV on the host machine)?
    [/quote]

    I can’t discuss the implementation on the client (remote) machine, at least not yet.  Hopefully soon.  On the InfiniTV4 host machine it is an option on the beta firmware.  From there you bridge the network adapters.

    [img width=650 height=196]http://www.missingremote.com/images/stories/mikinho/network-connections.jpg[/img]

    Going off the above, neither the InfiniTV4-01 or Home network adapters will have any
    protocols associated with them.  Instead all the TCPIP settings will be under “Network Bridge”.  The “Network Bridge” adapter will unfortunately have a dynamically assigned MAC Address so Static DHCP, for those that use it, will not work.

    [quote=”tcs2tx”]
    I currently use static IP addresses for my machines anf would prefer to continue doing so.  The problem you describe confuses me because (1) I’ve never done network briding to begin with, so I am not sure how to even set up once Ceton releases the updated firmware, and (2) if the MAC bridge miniport has its own IP address (static or dynamic), how does that affect the separate IP addresses of the NIC in the host and/or client?
    [/quote]

    If you use Static IP addresses already then you will need to reconfigure the network settings for “Network Bridge” adapter.  The “normal” network adapter will no longer have its own IP address, everything goes through the “Network Bridge”.  On the client side, no change will be needed on the network card.