From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wolfgang Denk Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 08:58:50 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] U-Boot not responding back to ARP requests? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 26 Sep 2004 17:44:02 PDT." <6.1.1.1.0.20040926172119.01e24fc0@wheresmymailserver.com> Message-ID: <20040927065855.3B990C1430@atlas.denx.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de In message <6.1.1.1.0.20040926172119.01e24fc0@wheresmymailserver.com> you wrote: > > Yeah - my problem as soon as the network admin figures out what is going > on, and tells me I can't have U-boot plugged into the network. :( There is > so much ARP/RARP traffic that the subnet performance is about 1/10 of what > it should be. So far the only person complaining was me, and now I will stop. I cannot believe this. How many boards do you have connected, how often o they boot, and how much ARP traffic do you really have on your net? Yes, there may be some ARP traffic, but it should nbever be a noticable network load. > I agree (almost) - it is a development issue that is only a problem during > bring up and testing of U-boot. There is no reason to change production > level code to fix a development issue. Ummm... no. We are focussed on development. If U-Boot causes real problems in a development environment we have to address this, too. But ARP? I cannot imagine that this is a real problem. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd at denx.de You see things; and you say ``Why?'' But I dream things that never were; and I say ``Why not?'' - George Bernard Shaw _Back to Methuselah_ (1921) pt. 1, act 1