On Monday 22 May 2006 4:31 am, Ethan Du wrote: > 1. why should device pass a MAC address to Host through "Ethernet Networking > Functional Descriptor"? Can usenet.c decide one by itself?
It's better if MAC addresses don't need local/probabalistic allocation. > 2. EEM doesn't have specific descriptor, so how could host control those > broadcast and power filters? What filters are you talking about? The EEM spec doesn't provide any details about such things, so it looks to me like there aren't any ... > 3. I don't need to care about IP address in driver, is it? What I only need > to do is to write a script including "ifconfig usb0 .....", is this right? > But who will act as dhcp server? Device or host? That's a network operational policy question, not a link layer issue. But it's hard to come up with realistic cases where the peripheral could manage IP addresses ... after all, it's not usually going to be connected to the network! Look at zeroconf address assignment too. - Dave ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
