On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 08:14:01AM +0100, Erwin Burgstaller wrote: > * Mon, Nov 03, 2008 - 17:25:27 +0100, Florian Pose - [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > please do this via higher-layer mechanisms, for example WWW, SSH or > > whatever your slave supports. > > Hm, for WWW or SSH we first need an ip-address. ;-)
It it the same thing with buying a new router, for example. It has a default IP address, that you can change afterwards. > OK, we'll probably use DHCP, or if the slaves knows it's ring position, > we'll let it build it's ip-address based on that, something like this: > 192.168.<X>.2 It's difficult for a slave to know its ring position, but you could use the alias address (SII word 4), for instance. -- Best regards, Florian Pose http://etherlab.org _______________________________________________ etherlab-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.etherlab.org/mailman/listinfo/etherlab-users
