On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 17:05 +0100, Manfred Gruber wrote: > Am Freitag, 27. Januar 2006 16:48 schrieb Gary Thomas: > > On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 16:44 +0100, Manfred Gruber wrote: > > > Hi ! > > > > > > One small question about ethernet on redboot. My customer wants that on > > > redboot the ethernet configuration is disabled. So he don't want to have > > > a default configuration in redboot. Would it then be enough to put all > > > IP-Addresses to 0.0.0.0 like it is when you start up redboot the first > > > time, or would this produce problems. > > > > I'm not sure that would be sufficient - maybe if you choose static IP. > > > > Perhaps better yet would be to just remove network support from > > RedBoot completely: > > > > % ecosconfig remove eth_drivers > > > > This will disable all network functions. > > Hi ! > > Remove ethernet support is not the solution for the customer. He only wants > not that the default IP-configuration of redboot could make problems when he > sells the board to someone other. He wants to have a Ip-Address in redboot > which could not confict with other IP-Adresses, but the only one which I know > was 0.0.0.0 all other Adresse "could" confict. > > how do others do this with redboot? they leave one static Ip-Adress and if > there is a confict, the confict is only a very small time (boot of redboot) > which make no problem ???
Set up the device once (first time), run 'fconfig' and select the static IP addresses you want. From then on, that's what he'll get. -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | Consulting for the MLB Associates | Embedded world ------------------------------------------------------------ -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss
