Failed Getting Account Status - Thomson

[petestrash]

You need to manually load the slices from the emulator.

I don't believe you can get them from a TiVo.

Peter.

[thomson]

[TiVo [p1] ~]# /tvbin/http_post /var/tmp/syslog.gz http://210.48.107.133:8000/tivo-service/acceptfile.cgi OFF ON
Thu Mar 15 12:43:20 2007: /tvbin/http_post invoked
connecting to 210.48.107.133:8000
select-ing for header
timeout waiting for data
timeout waiting for data

Might pay to check for potential issues with firewall rules and even the size of the /var/tmp/syslog.gz as it could be that this is very large or corrupted?

[TimesOwn]

It is curious that the 1.3.1's do not have such a problem as they can be updated, all be it sometimes manually, this is not the case with the 2.0.0, which does seem to point to some difference in the 2.0.0 code?

/var/tmp/syslog.gz is 0.13MB and is dated at the last time an update was attempted - and suceeded spontaneously this morning!!!

The firewall is pfSense, which is an industrial class firewall. See http://pfsense.org/ No ports are specifically opened for the TiVo's. Any suggestions on tests to confirm the firewall is not interfering? I am not sure if one can map the same external port to multiple LAN IP's, and this is in my experience unusual of firewalls. Darren, what is the model of your Bullion, I am interested to check this out.

[TimesOwn]

On checking I noted that my firewall's ARP table only reported one of the 3 static TiVo's (which do have different Ip and MAC addresses) however the hostnames were not reported either. I edited two of the Host names in /etc/dhclient.conf to make these unique, now the 3 statics appear in the ARP table, although the host names remain unreferenced. Makes me wonder if this might have been a factor in the problems? Did I do this host name change in the right place?

[petestrash]

Not sure about UK v2.5.5, but the current OzTiVo release 1.6.2 sets it via oztivo.conf.

dhclient.conf was previoulsy used.

Peter.

[TimesOwn]

Interesting. My oztivo.conf says:

# OzTiVo menu configuration settings file
# Please do not edit this file
# Put the TiVo disk back in your PC to reconfigure
nic=Cachecard
ip=192.168.x.x
mac=A0:0B:AD:A0:0A:1D
hostname=
modem=0
pppondss=0
netmask=255.255.255.0
gateway=192.168.x.x
ssid=
wep=
wepkey=

I'd be happeir to put it in here and try it if it didn't say the first 3 commented lines, which do not seem to make sense, given the presumed purpose of this file, typically one would control the settings here and maybe reboot? Presumably if one keeps the details in /etc/rc.d/rc.net consistent it should be ok to edit here and there simultaneously? Are there other places to coordinate also that the PC installer does, noting it does not offer the option of hostname, at least that I recall?

[petestrash]

Since hostname= is blank your version of software does not take it from here.

The reason we don't want people manually changing the file is that it is read by other programs, and setup by the installer.

Peter.