From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Gary Thomas <gthomas@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew.lunn@ascom.ch>
Cc: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com, Amit Bhor <Amitb@myrealbox.com>
Subject: Re: [ECOS] how to assign an IP address  ?
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 06:53:00 -0000
Message-id: <XFMail.20010817075413.gthomas@redhat.com>
References: <20010817154214.C5320@biferten.ma.tech.ascom.ch>
X-SW-Source: 2001-08/msg00607.html

On 17-Aug-2001 Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 01:37:44PM +0000, Amit Bhor wrote:
>> hello everyone ,
>> 
>> i compiled the ecos code with networking support with the test_ping.c program ... but how do i
>> assign a IP address to the loopback interface ? ..I can see some bootp code but can i assign an
>> IP address statically ? ..if yes...how ? I am running the ecos 1.3.1 with the stable tcp/ip
> stack (not the current cvs code)...
> 
> First off, i suggest you use the anon cvs version. There have been
> lots of bug fixes to the stack which are only in CVS. 
> 
> The function init_all_network_interfaces() will assigned the IP
> address 127.0.0.1 to the loopback device. You don't need to do
> anything so long as you call this function.
> 

Additionally, I'm pretty sure that the loopback interface does not
even function in the older 1.3.1 codebase.

Use the CVS.