From: Gary Thomas <gthomas@redhat.com>
To: Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com>
Cc: Nick Barnes <Nick.Barnes@pobox.com>, ecos-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: [ECOS] Notes on static configuration of an eCos network inte
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 09:45:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <XFMail.20000717104544.gthomas@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20000717163022.A29604@visi.com>
On 17-Jul-2000 Grant Edwards wrote:
>> > Right now, I'm building a fake bootp record and passing it to
>> > init_net(). This seems to be way more work than it's worth
>> > (especially since it's not right), so I'm going to throw out
>> > all of the fake bootp stuff and just duplicate the code in
>> > net_init(), passing the right IP addresses in the ioctl() calls.
>> >
>> > It will end up being a lot smaller and simpler that way. Is
>> > there any reason I shouldn't do that?
>>
>> The reason that init_net() is based on BOOTP now is for flexibility.
>> By having the numbers hard coded [somehow] in the routine, you loose
>> all of that.
>
> The numbers aren't hard-coded. I have a structure that
> contains the ip address, subnet mask, and default gateway. This
> data was constructed by my boot loader code.
>
The idea was [the hope was] that the required data would be exactly what
BOOTP provides if used. Having you mimic BOOTP was supposed to make
this easier.
I haven't looked at how the DHCP support has changed this, so maybe it
will improve. If not, we're certainly open to listening to what you need.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-07-17 9:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-07-17 5:45 [ECOS] Notes on static configuration of an eCos network interface Nick Barnes
2000-07-17 6:59 ` Bart Veer
2000-07-17 7:07 ` [ECOS] Notes on static configuration of an eCos network inte Gary Thomas
2000-07-18 5:52 ` [ECOS] Notes on static configuration of an eCos network interface Nick Barnes
2000-07-18 8:03 ` Grant Edwards
2000-07-17 8:52 ` Grant Edwards
2000-07-17 9:03 ` [ECOS] Notes on static configuration of an eCos network inte Gary Thomas
2000-07-17 9:28 ` Andrew Lunn
2000-07-17 9:40 ` Grant Edwards
2000-07-17 9:47 ` Andrew Lunn
2000-07-17 9:29 ` Grant Edwards
2000-07-17 9:45 ` Gary Thomas [this message]
2000-07-17 10:01 ` Grant Edwards
2000-07-17 9:45 ` [ECOS] Notes on static configuration of an eCos network interface Hugo 'NOx' Tyson
2000-07-20 7:00 ` Hugo 'NOx' Tyson
2000-07-20 9:57 ` Bart Veer
2000-07-20 11:00 ` Hugo 'NOx' Tyson
2000-07-20 11:19 ` Bart Veer
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