Mark Lanctot wrote: > Thinking about this - it might be! In my situation, I have a static IP > network. If I get an SBR and turn it on, how can I tell it what its IP > address will be? It can't get on the network. Chicken-and-egg? > > DHCP makes things a little easier but as many posts on this forum show, > DHCP is far from foolproof. >
A PC application doesn't have to communicate over IP. It can use ethernet broadcasts to discover SB devices and configure them over raw ethernet. Alternatively an SBR could have a default IP address and netmask, the config app would create a temporary route to that IP and configure it. Regards, Peter _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
