From: Eliot Blennerhassett <eblennerhassett@audioscience.com>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Linux-embedded <linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Remote IP setup of devices in a network
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:30:26 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EB9BB92.9080505@audioscience.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111108193158.GA28261@merkur.ravnborg.org>
On 09/11/11 08:31, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 07:11:09PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
>> On Tue, 2011-11-08 at 19:54 +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>>> The idea is to use an UDP broadcast to discover all devices,
>>> and a similar UDP broadcast to configure the devices.
>>> In the latter the MAC will be the key to address individual devices.
It isn't obvious why you can't use bootp or dhcp?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-08 23:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-08 18:54 Remote IP setup of devices in a network Sam Ravnborg
2011-11-08 19:11 ` David Woodhouse
2011-11-08 19:31 ` Sam Ravnborg
2011-11-08 23:30 ` Eliot Blennerhassett [this message]
2011-11-09 0:59 ` David Woodhouse
2011-11-09 10:11 ` Martyn Welch
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