Tivo and Phoning Home with Turbonet

[General_Disarry]

Just got turbonet going on my Tivo v 2.5.2. Thanks all.

Set up the username and pw in the cfg file and static IP and was not able to log in to it over the web after enabling port forwarding of port 80 in my router.

I then realised that when I made the mods to defeat dhcp, there were no dns servers or gateway defined on my Tivo therefore it wasn't responding to the incoming request.

So I switched back to the original cfg with DHCP. I can now get into it over the web after authenticating in the pop-up.

Questions......

1. with dhcp enabled, will v 2.5.2 try to phone home via the web?

2. I know how to make the mods necessary to set tivo as static on my network regarding ip address and netmask, but where do I make the mods to set the dns servers and default gateway in tivo? I would like to go this route so I can access while on the road using my no-ip.com alias and the internal network addy stays the same for the tivo in case of a power failure etc?

I have 2 other computers that might take the .103 addy.

[SR712]

I would keep the static ip. You set the default gateway in the same place as the static ip. Like this (this is from my rc.net):

/sbin/ifconfig net0 192.168.1.200 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
sleep 1
/sbin/route delete default 2> /dev/null
sleep 1
/sbin/route add default gw 192.168.1.1 netmask 0.0.0.0 dev net0

If you are using the eth0 as the net device, I believe it will try to connect in 2.5.2. I could be wrong (maybe that's 3.1). I have modified the ax88796.o file to use net0 instead, anyway. (Use a hex editor) TiVo software looks for eth0 for the phone-home. I also have the small sleep time in there because I was having occassional problems loading the device. 192.168.1.1 is my router.

Also, set up your router so that your TiVo's address won't be given away to another computer. My router won't give out addys .200-.210