Dear Matthew Lear, In message <[email protected]> you wrote: > > Firstly, perhaps the problems I have with netcat and U-Boot netconsole > are partly to do with the 'listener' software itself (ie netcat), > running on <server ip>. AFAIK the 'mapping' of netcat to target ip > address in order to utilise U-Boot's netconsole is one-to-one, ie netcat > is unable to listen on an ip address range because it performs a lookup > on the address and this obviously fails for an ip address range. I may > be wrong here but from what I can tell, listening on an ip range with > netcat is not possible. If it was, then this would solve part of my problem. > > Of course, there may be other listeners which may be able to do this..?
You got the source code. Feel free to implement a lsitener with all the features you need. > Secondly, if there is a centralised logging machine (<server ip>), then > ideally, the messages received from U-Boot's netconsole would be > prefixed with an identifier in order to differentiate one device running > U-Boot from another. The prefix could be a U-Boot env hostname, ip > address, MAC address or some other identifier/variable. If this was > possible then each platform could be differentiated easily at the server > end. Again, this can be easily implemented on the listener side, as you know exactly where each packet is coming from. > I suppose my end goal is to have something akin or analogous to multiple > platforms running Linux and logging over syslog to a server machine > running syslogd. > > Does that help? Yes, as it defines your requirements. As it turns out, you need support for additional features on the listener side. From what you wrote I cannot see any changes needed for the U-Boot side. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: [email protected] Speed of a tortoise breaking the sound barrier = 1 Machturtle _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list [email protected] http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
