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You should request a UI feature in Mantis (Category: Webadmin / Severity: feature).

Thanks Matthew. Feature properly requested. I think I'm starting to like you. You're smarter than me, or atleast you have better grammar.

Come to think of it.. At the dawn of time (about 2 weeks ago) when  first found LMCE i ran DHCP on both core and Linksys. Every time i did that, the core got authority over the router, changing the IP's of all computers within the network from 192.168.1.xxx to 192.168.80.xxx. Every time. Does anybody know why this is? Why the core gets the first shot over the router?

When the Lease on the IPs are half way up they request new ones. I would assume that your core just responds to the request to renew with and IP sooner. So from my experance most store bought routers that server DHCP give a lease time of one day to three days (I think one is more common). So half way through the lease time (12 - 36 hr) the PCs sends out a request to renew that lease and the Core responds first.

Not that I commonly set up up two DHCP servers on the same net, but I have several times and one always seems to be more responsive for some reason and convert the network shortly. the only way around it would be limit the amount of available IPs, but that wouldn't guarantee what devices got IPs on what network.

**Feature Request within** another option would be let the DCE be the DHCP server and hack the DHCP config file to have it give out the router as the Gateway instead of itself (and obviously have them with the same IP scheme). it would be nice as a built in feature of the DHCP web configuration to manually define the gateway with out hacking the file as a way to dumb things down for the average user.

I think MCE is a great product, but we have to get some of this stuff more friendly to the average n00b or id10t user other wise they will stay in Bill Gates cult. I think a small network config script that they can ask if this will be the DHCP server AND the GateWay also might make that easier.

I'm personally onboard with the people that want a separate router for security reasons. I'd rather a separate router be out front to be hacked instead of a system that controls my whole house. I use IPCOP and can port forward what I need to make the features work if I know all the ports. I would accept using LMCE as my router also if the DHCP and firewall were more configurable (need my VPN specially). maybe someone can fork IPCOP and plug it in as LMCEs firewall.

I'm not big on the whole earth worship thing, but I guess lower electric bills would be nice.

If you hadn't got that in there people might have (oh no!!) assumed you thought that saving the Earth's resources and stopping the destruction of millions of species of animals was a worthwhile cause. Imagine that! Phew!

My bad. I'll try again.

SSD or a CF flash with a SATA adaptor will be a big step in LMCE and any area of PC development to make them more power conscious and perform better.

That's the suggestion; let's discuss that regardless of personal beliefs, faiths, movements were sympathetic to, sexual preferences, political affiliations, or any other divisive factors.

If you can't handle a tongue and cheek comment from someone who doesn't accept that mankind are a virus out to destroy the planet; maybe there needs to be a disclaimer that states only conformist allowed.

I'm not big on the whole earth worship thing, but I guess lower electric bills would be nice. I skimmed most of the post and was wondering if someone looked into suspend to disk and use a SSD (solid state disk) drives or for a little less $$ you could use a Compaq flash with a CP flash -to- SATA adapter for the HD. It would achieve a huge disk performance and less power consumption without having to have a fast enough USB drive hanging out of your MD. I don't think the HD on a MD need to be that large at all. and it can be used as a primary drive on the core, put the media on a traditional drive or on a NAS that will allow the drives to spin down when not active.

I know other places people are already slipping theses solutions into Laptops to make the batt last longer and the system perform faster. Switching to one of these alone might be a step in the direction you want before even adding the suspend/hibernate option.