From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <385E817A.D2B76318@netx4.com> Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 14:20:26 -0500 From: Dan Malek MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Wohlgemuth, Jason" CC: "'linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org'" Subject: Re: Booting w/out BOOTP and still have IPv4 comeup. References: <199912201808.NAA02902@hoover.gilbarco.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Wohlgemuth, Jason wrote: > Just a quick question. I have linux going on an embedded MPC860. The > application that is running on it uses sockets but when I disable bootp all > the socket calls fail since the network has not been configured properly. I have only been able to do this by using 'ifconfig'. I don't know the details, but simply setting the IP address like this doesn't seem to invoke some initialization functions. Using ifconfig after the system boots works just fine. -- Dan ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/