From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17118 invoked by alias); 8 Jul 2002 23:50:47 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ecos-discuss-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-discuss-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 17100 invoked from network); 8 Jul 2002 23:50:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO conn.mc.mpls.visi.com) (208.42.156.2) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 8 Jul 2002 23:50:45 -0000 Received: from grante.comtrol.com (isis.visi.com [209.98.98.8]) by conn.mc.mpls.visi.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 426BB81BF for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 18:50:45 -0500 (CDT) Received: (qmail 32071 invoked by uid 500); 8 Jul 2002 23:54:18 -0000 Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 16:50:00 -0000 From: Grant Edwards To: Gary Thomas Cc: eCos Discussion Message-ID: <20020708185417.A32010@visi.com> References: <85256BF0.0062039C.00@wg.com> <20020708135106.A30396@visi.com> <1026171642.27291.1477.camel@hermes.chez-thomas.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <1026171642.27291.1477.camel@hermes.chez-thomas.org>; from gary@chez-thomas.org on Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 05:40:41PM -0600 Subject: Re: [ECOS] Redboot DHCP and gateway support X-SW-Source: 2002-07/txt/msg00084.txt.bz2 On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 05:40:41PM -0600, Gary Thomas wrote: > I'm looking at your patches and they seem mostly straight forward. > > * How did you intend to set ip_local_mask, ip_local_gate (assuming > that one is not using DHCP)? I've got a bunch of custom startup code that reads various config info out of an I2C EEPROM and fills in those values if static addressing is to be used. If DHCP is to be used, that routine sets a flag called "use_bootp" to 1. > * Is the DHCP mode always used, or can it be selected/configured? It appears to be controlled by the "use_bootp" flag, but I don't remember who's reading that flag... > * The test for a broadcast address in __ip_send seems to be hard > coded for Class-C addresses. Hmm. That could be a bug. I've got to run to a volleyball game, so I'll have to look at it more closely tomorrow. -- Grant Edwards grante@visi.com -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://sources.redhat.com/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/ecos-discuss