Thanks Michael,
I agree totally with your assessment.
If we set up a FQDN with DHCP and DNS on a server, everything would just work.
I will say that with Crestron's stack implementation, SSL does work with non-Crestron Home systems.
I have successfully used Crestron's "setcsauthentication" on many statically assigned devices without problems.
My opinion is that Crestron's VLAN "solution" for CH is flawed.
If they would allow us to treat the processor like a trunked device, then everything would work fine.
The Crestron processor would just add the appropriate VLAN flags to any traffic not on its primary VLAN.
The whole point of Crestron Home is that is should be easier to implement.