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From: Eliot Blennerhassett <eblennerhassett@audioscience.com>
Subject: Re: Remote IP setup of devices in a network
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:30:26 +1300
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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?