[ECOS] peculiar RedBoot network problem

[Jonathan Larmour]

"Trenton D. Adams" wrote:
> 
> I run my programs over the network using RedBoot.  RedBoot is set to use
> the ip 172.16.1.240.  My eCos application is set to get an IP using
> DHCP.  It gets an ip of 172.16.1.11.  Now, I ran my eCos program from
> RedBoot, and now a reset of the board does not reset the IP to
> 172.16.1.240.  It's almost as if the eCos application has taken over
> some how.  Of course RedBoot doesn't listen on 172.16.1.11 so I can't do
> a GDB connection to there.  Also, running fconfig through a serial port
> shows that 172.16.1.240 is in fact the IP RedBoot is setup for.
> 
> Any ideas why this might happen?  I've been running eCos programs with
> network support enabled for the past day using the network GDB of
> RedBoot and this hasn't occurred until now.

Have you set a static IP address in your CDL configuration? Or in your
flash configuration?

Jifl
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