Re: [Linuxmce-project] DHCP server on core

[Peter <pe...@su...>]

I can just say, some ppl need to go an other road and needs flexibility.

I don't mind a prepacked solution but I don't like to be forced using
all of it. Would be nice to ba able to turn things on and of and be able
to tell LinuxMCE where to find the services when they aren't run on the
core.

I feel that the only way for me to go to be able to use LinuxMCE is to
put it on it's own DMZ. It can play it's network circus there and the
rest of my machines won't be bothered about it.

LinuxMCE is THE media center but it, sadly, sucks when it comes to
flexibility. 


On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 10:44 -0600, tsuraan wrote:

> > guys...
> >
> > why do some of you try to make this stuff 50,000 times harder than it
> > ever should be?
> >
> > why don't you make the asterisk, mysql, dhcp/firewall servers you're
> > using, the CORE.. install a core only installation on that
> > machine....and use media directors where you want the HTPC
> > functionality?
> 
> For my case, the router is a Geode/233 MHz with 128MB RAM and 256MB
> "hard drive."  It's very low-power (4W wall-wart IIRC), and it and my
> cable modem can run for many hours on their UPS.  The description of
> the Core software makes it pretty clear that my firewall would be a
> tad underpowered for that purpose.
> 
> I have an NFSv4 and Samba enabled file server, with about 1TB of
> storage in hardware raid, with a ~1300 MHz processor and a good chunk
> of RAM.   The slow processor there makes me think Core wouldn't be too
> happy with that machine.  I'm also planning on re-building that
> machine to Solaris 10 soon, and I'm guessing that LinuxMCE doesn't run
> on Solaris.
> 
> The machine I'd like to run the Core on would by my gf's development
> machine, which is a Core Duo (4600?) with gigE, lots of memory, and a
> small-ish hard drive.  All files would be stored on the file server,
> so that shouldn't be an issue, but the dev server does not serve dhcp;
> it has to reboot sometimes, and I just really like having my firewall
> do dhcp.
> 
> So...  Is there a way to have my firewall send its dhcpd logs to the
> Core software so that it thinks it has a dhcpd server running, or do
> you run a modified dhcpd that communicates directly with the Core
> software?