Okay, so this is my first program of any type, ever, so I hope you'll be gentle. This program was created largely due to problems I was having within my home network locating hosts when my router insisted on dynamically assigning IPs to all my computers every time they booted, and more importantly, refused to allow me to set static IPs for reasons I was unable to fathom.
The addition of the Xbox detection was another issue I've been having. I've been running XBMC for a while now, and found the absence of a hostname setting on the machine frustrating and annoying, particularly in an application that's so generally brilliant in all other regards.
Finally, I wanted to be able to get to my machine from the wider world when I wanted to, and the frustration of dynamic IPs meant that I couldn't consistently redirect a port to a particular internal IP because they all kept changing. When I found the handy little MiniUPnP project here on sourceforge, I thought that I had the opportunity to use that to find my machine consistently within the local network.
I'm sure folks out there will tell me there's a simpler way of doing what I've done, and in a way I hope that they do because I'll learn something. If you choose to download the program, please let me know how you get on, and if you have any ideas for it, I'd love to hear them.
Toodle-pip,
Alex
(maverickprowls)
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Okay, so this is my first program of any type, ever, so I hope you'll be gentle. This program was created largely due to problems I was having within my home network locating hosts when my router insisted on dynamically assigning IPs to all my computers every time they booted, and more importantly, refused to allow me to set static IPs for reasons I was unable to fathom.
The addition of the Xbox detection was another issue I've been having. I've been running XBMC for a while now, and found the absence of a hostname setting on the machine frustrating and annoying, particularly in an application that's so generally brilliant in all other regards.
Finally, I wanted to be able to get to my machine from the wider world when I wanted to, and the frustration of dynamic IPs meant that I couldn't consistently redirect a port to a particular internal IP because they all kept changing. When I found the handy little MiniUPnP project here on sourceforge, I thought that I had the opportunity to use that to find my machine consistently within the local network.
I'm sure folks out there will tell me there's a simpler way of doing what I've done, and in a way I hope that they do because I'll learn something. If you choose to download the program, please let me know how you get on, and if you have any ideas for it, I'd love to hear them.
Toodle-pip,
Alex
(maverickprowls)