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Re: Customer wants to switch off ethernet !
- From: Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc dot com>
- To: Manfred Gruber <m dot gruber at tirol dot com>
- Cc: eCos Discussion <ecos-discuss at ecos dot sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 08:48:55 -0700
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Customer wants to switch off ethernet !
- References: <200601271644.12164.m.gruber@tirol.com>
On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 16:44 +0100, Manfred Gruber wrote:
> Hi !
>
> One small question about ethernet on redboot. My customer wants that on
> redboot the ethernet configuration is disabled. So he don't want to have a
> default configuration in redboot. Would it then be enough to put all
> IP-Addresses to 0.0.0.0 like it is when you start up redboot the first time,
> or would this produce problems.
I'm not sure that would be sufficient - maybe if you choose static IP.
Perhaps better yet would be to just remove network support from
RedBoot completely:
% ecosconfig remove eth_drivers
This will disable all network functions.
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