On 2009-09-25, Laurie Gellatly <laurie.gella...@netic.com> wrote: > With my project I found some interesting things with DHCP and > network cables. If the network cable was unplugged at startup > then there is no IP address. I found that I could run out of > file handles
Does that happen because of something the DHCP client task is doing? > and that DHCPinit call would never return even if the cable > was later inserted. I had to work around that and then > regularly call init_all_network_interfaces in the main TCP > listening task just after it also fed the watchdog if the IP > address was 0.0.0.0. Wouldn't fixing the DHCP client code be a better approach? > Switching in and out of DHCP or static addressing was also > coded. Most of our products require you to reboot the device after changing the IP configuration. -- Grant -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss
