Lou Jacob on January 18, 2006 1:45 AM

dougncindy said:

Is there going to be any kind of conflict if there are 2 tivos on the network that have the same Client Host Name. Ex:PTVupgrade-TiVo-Series2 and PTVupgrade-TiVo-Series2.
Doug

No - each unit will have its own MAC address and should then get a different IP address. The hostid is just a label that is added for your router, to make it easier for you identify things.

Yog-Sothoth on January 18, 2006 8:11 AM

If you look in /ptvupgrade/etc you'll find a dhclient.conf. In it is

interface "eth0" {
send host-name "PTVupgrade-TiVo-Series2";
}

Change the host-name to whatever you wish and reboot. If you use Windows, make sure you use an editor such as Win32Pad (Unix capable) to edit the file.

dougncindy on January 18, 2006 8:20 AM

Thanks that worked on changing the name.
Doug

maxrich on August 1, 2006 6:56 PM

FWIW, on both of my Samsung SIR-S120R PTVNet/InstantCake/SuperPatched machines, editing the dhclient.conf in /ptvupgrade/etc did not work.  Doing a quick find for dhclient.conf, there was another located in /etc.  When I changed that one, it worked.

 - Max