I think it would be a good thing to have the option of manually entering the IP-address and the address of the server, since it will be a problem in many companies/offices to install the Rio Audio Manager as a DHCP Server without permission from the network admin. This would also eliminate problems, when having more than one Audio Manager in the same network.

This isn't possible - the unit has no writable NVRAM. Actually, it has flash, but the chips used vary between builds and so we never wrote a driver to write to them - the page size (etc) varies a lot between manufacturers.

The ARMGR software does not need to DHCP serve - you just turn off "autoconfiguration on this adaptor" (or something like that). It does local subnet broadcasts to find the music/software server, falling back to all net broadcast if the subnet one fails.

It'll work fine in office environments, we did a lot of testing with this.

Hugo

Also, the Manager software DHCP software _only_ serves the Receivers -- it looks for a vendor tag -- and it waits for 3-4 requests before responding, so your office DHCP server should get in there first, anyway.

Very clever!

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Tony Fabris

A similar trick of the DHCP is used for the Compaq TaskSmart servers when initially configuring them. Works very well.