[ECOS] ip address

[Gary Thomas]

On Sat, 2005-04-09 at 19:05 +0200, Diego Duyvejonck wrote: 
> Hi,
> During network initialisation, eCos will get its ip address from a dhcp
> server or just have a predefined fixed ip address depending on the
> kernel configuration.
> However, I would prefer to use the bootp flag status from the redboot
> config block to decide how to get the ip address.  
> Is there any trivial way to change the way to obtain the ip address at
> startup (on the fly) ?  
> Using the dhcp client + fall back to a fixed address is not really an
> option, since this can only be done after some timeout.
> When the system is installed in a fixed and well defined environment
> with no dhcp server on the network, this timeout is wasted time.
> Any idea ?

Your application could read the 'fconfig' values from RedBoot and
then behave the way that it does.  It's straight forward to access
these data using the CYGNUM_CALL_IF_FLASH_CFG_GET function.

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