On Thursday, February 13, 2014 9:58:03 PM UTC-6, Walter Schilling wrote:
>
> Board members:
>
> I've got an interesting problem that I'm trying to come up with a solution 
> for.  I am going to be teaching a class next quarter on the Beaglebone 
> Black.  Students will attach their bones to a network and program them 
> remotely over ethernet.  Code will be developed on a virtual machine 
> running Linux and then connected via sftp to the board.  However, the 
> students will only have a bone and a prototyping cape available to them. 
>  WHat I am trying to figure out is the best way for them to determine the 
> IP address of their board.  By default, I know that the boards use dhcp to 
> get an ip address.  However, without a display, it's somewhat hard to get 
> an ip address.  Is there an easy way, maybe by using the usb connection, 
> that students can figure out the IP address of the board so they can remote 
> to it in an appropriate fashion.  I've thought about simply pinging the 
> boards, but with multiple boards on the network, that would only indicate 
> that a board is connected, not that their board is connected.  I suppose I 
> could go to fixed IP's, but that would require them to change the SD card, 
> which at first I'd rather use "stock" until they have gotten their feet wet.
>
> Any ideas or suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Walt
>
> PS: We'll be using a Debian image based of of Robert Nelson's work unless 
> a new "standard" image comes out from Circuitco before then.
>

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