On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Walter Schilling <[email protected]>wrote:
> Thanks for all of the responses. A couple of additional aspects to the >>> problem: >>> >> > #1 I don't have access to the routers to adjust their setup, as that is > controlled by our IT department that doesn't want to deal with > configuration in that manner. > #2 Students may work at home / dorms with a different network confiuration. > > I'm entrigued by the idea of writing the IP address to a file at boot. If > I did that, then I probably could connect via usb and read that file back. > I'll have to try that and see if I can get that working reliably. > > I've also thought about a program that blinked the lights on the board to > display the ip, but I';m not sure that will be reliable either. (Hint: > Maybe that would be a cool heartbeat to build into the onboard leds for > this reason.) > fyi: if you look closely at the debian testing images i've been pushing, the ip address is listed on the serial console above the login prompt.. However with systemd, it boots to fast, so eth0 is usually never updated (it's a race between getting ip and the init script that updates /etc/issue). Otherwise give each board a unique host name.. then user can just "ssh [email protected]" Regards, -- Robert Nelson http://www.rcn-ee.com/ -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
