I just want to make sure I get this right. Believe me, we'd all rather have me ask now then to have to try to figure out what I did later.

This is the network section of my config.ini now:

[Network]
Gateway=0.0.0.0
Netmask=0.0.0.0
IPAddress=0.0.0.0
DHCP=1

I want to use a dynamic IP at "home" and a static IP at "work". Is this how I should modify this:

[Network]
Gateway=0.0.0.0
Netmask=0.0.0.0
IPAddress=static.ip.address.here
;@WORK DHCP=0
;@HOME DHCP=1
DHCP=0

What is the trailing "DHCP=0" for? Is that if neither WORK or HOME is selected (ie. docked in the car)?

Thank you in advance.

-Christian

Your netmask should be 255.255.255.0 but otherwise that looks right. And you are correct about the trailing DHCP, I think.

Remember that the "@work" and "@home" settings are only useful if you select that feature from the Hijack menu.

I've posted on quite a few message boards in my lifetime. Only a very few had enough activity that you could get a near "real-time" post.

But I've NEVER seen a board where you ALWAYS get a real-time post from the SAME POSTER!

As always, much luv Tony.

-Christian

The reason I can do it is because I have a little system-tray icon that notifies me when a new post appears on the BBS. I treat it more or less like e-mail or instant messenging. I do my work all day in multiple windows on my desktop and I'm constantly answering emails anyway, so for any given BBS post, it's really only a slight diversion to read and optionally reply to any messages. I find that it takes very little time to keep things caught up during the day.

As for coming in first thing in the morning, I've got it down to a science where I can rip through all the new BBS posts in about 10 minutes. It only becomes a problem after I've just come back from a vacation.

Fortunately, the traffic level died back down quite a bit after the firesale was well done with. It was way too high there for a while, with the pure noise percentage having gone up quite a bit, too.

The trailing DHCP=0 (or DHCP=1) line is (1) to keep Emplode happy, and (2) incase you ever revert back to a non-Hijack kernel or do a software upgrade.

Cheers

Depending on what sort of DHCP server you use, you could tie the Empeg's MAC address to a static IP and everytime you connect it to the network, it would get the same IP even though to the Empeg, it would seem dynamic.

I use a dual NIC linux box at home for my firewall/router chores and that's how I have my whole network setup. Every PC gets the same IP address every time they boot up but to the PC's, it's all still plain DHCP.

Of course, if you work somewhere where this isn't possible, please disregard this