[OT] TIVO

[robertlaferla at comcast.net (Robert La Ferla)]

Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> wrote:

>I have an earlier Tivo in which I put an ethernet card and I changed
>the dialing prefix to the magic value to get it to use my DSL for
>program information.  Worked great for months, then a few weeks ago I
>got a message that daily "calls" were not getting through and that
>Tivo was running out of programming information.  Strange.  I hooked
>up the phone line again and am now going out the old way.
>
>The Tivo is still making its regular DHCP requests over the ethernet,
>but even with the special prefix it doesn't seem to even try to use
>the ethernet anymore.  Dang.  Rebooted it even.
>
>
>-kb, the Kent who needs to track this down.
>  
>
Do you have a firewall or dhcp server?  I had a similar problem and 
tracked it down to a problem with the Tivo not getting a valid ip 
address from the dhcp server.