Re: [ECOS] Notes on static configuration of an eCos network inte

[Gary Thomas <gthomas at redhat dot com>]

On 17-Jul-2000 Grant Edwards wrote:
>> > Right now, I'm building a fake bootp record and passing it to
>> > init_net().  This seems to be way more work than it's worth
>> > (especially since it's not right), so I'm going to throw out
>> > all of the fake bootp stuff and just duplicate the code in
>> > net_init(), passing the right IP addresses in the ioctl() calls.
>> > 
>> > It will end up being a lot smaller and simpler that way. Is
>> > there any reason I shouldn't do that?
>> 
>> The reason that init_net() is based on BOOTP now is for flexibility.
>> By having the numbers hard coded [somehow] in the routine, you loose
>> all of that.
> 
> The numbers aren't hard-coded.  I have a structure that
> contains the ip address, subnet mask, and default gateway. This
> data was constructed by my boot loader code.
> 

The idea was [the hope was] that the required data would be exactly what
BOOTP provides if used.  Having you mimic BOOTP was supposed to make
this easier.

I haven't looked at how the DHCP support has changed this, so maybe it
will improve.  If not, we're certainly open to listening to what you need.