Richard <[email protected]> wrote: > [-- multipart/alternative, encoding 7bit, 107 lines --] > > [-- text/plain, encoding 7bit, charset: UTF-8, 50 lines --] > > Hi! I'm having difficulty understanding and modifying the BBBW network > configuration. > > At boot on the BBBW, somehow, these IP addresses are assigned > SoftAP0: 192.168.8.1 > lo: 127.0.0.1
This is the 'loopback' address and is basically hard-coded and is the same on all systems (though it can be anything in the 127.0.x.x range). It's the address of the (BBB) system itself. Don't try and modify it, it's fundamental to the way IPV4 networks work. > usb0: 192.168.7.2 > usb1: 192.168.6.2 These two addresses are (I think) assigned by the USB drivers in some way, I'm not very familiar with this. > wlan0: 192.168.1.xxx > This address is (almost always) set by the DHCP server on the LAN, it's not set by the BBB at all. The DHCP server is probably a router though it can be another computer on the LAN. The address given to the BBB will usually be the same each time it's booted but it isn't necessarily so. The range of addresses assigned by the DHCP server is usually configurable in the router/DHCP server. (N.B. I've summarised a lot and skipped over lots of details and bits I'm not familiar with, don't take the above as a full description of how it works. There are, for example, other ways the wlan0 address might be set, I've just described the most likely one). -- Chris Green ยท -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/5v6ndf-ua9.ln1%40esprimo.zbmc.eu. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
