On 16 March 2011 10:03, Michael Hudson-Doyle <michael.hud...@canonical.com>wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 11:17:14 -0500, Paul Larson <paul.lar...@linaro.org> > wrote: > > > I like statically IP. How do we know which board would get which IP? > > > One idea would be to set up a DNS for internal board names. e.g. > > > panda01.internal.network would resolve to our preallocated static IP > > > for board "panda01". > > > > > > This could then be used by the dispatcher to resolve the IP and pass > > > it to the board through kernel cmdline. > > > > > > I hadn't really thought of passing it via cmdline. If we need to bring > it > > up statically, we could possibly do that, or possibly just make the > > necessary adjustments before booting the image. What I was proposing, if > > the image is already set up to dhcp by default, we could run a dhcp > server > > on the control node with the static ip assignments already in place for > each > > board. > > How would you do this? Most boards don't have a fixed MAC address. You > can set up a dhcp-name but that (AIUI) means a different rootfs for each > board and then you might as well just allocate a static IP... > > Also, some boards of the same type have the same MAC as well.. > > That way they always get the same address that we pre-allocated for > > that board. We'll also need to make sure that the control node has a > valid > > ip on both the internal and the external network. > > Cheers, > mwh > > _______________________________________________ > linaro-dev mailing list > linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org > http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev > -- With warm regards, Sachin
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