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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] Ethernet port
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:09:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070918190916.C81F02405D@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:19:17 EDT." <20070918211917.GJ25557@GNU>

In message <20070918211917.GJ25557@GNU> you wrote:
> 
>   Check the config file for the board you are referring. For eg, the
>   ADS board i refer to have the following configurations for setting
>   the ip and the mac respectively.
> 
>   #define CONFIG_IPADDR    192.168.1.253
> 
>   #define CONFIG_ETHADDR   00:E0:0C:00:00:FD

It is a terrible bad idea to set the IP address and especially the MAC
address of your board in the config file, as then all your boards will
share the same address, which will cause only trouble.

DO NOT DO THIS!!!

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-09-18 19:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-18 11:41 [U-Boot-Users] Ethernet port Yasothabalan
2007-09-18 21:19 ` urwithsughosh at gmail.com
2007-09-18 12:19   ` Yasothabalan
2007-09-18 22:48     ` urwithsughosh at gmail.com
2007-09-18 13:55       ` Yasothabalan
     [not found]         ` <CE54F2377C0FB8439A290BF5A88BF13D066727E0@CHN-HCLT-EVS01.HCLT.CORP.HCL .IN>
2007-09-18 14:17           ` Ramasamy C
2007-09-18 19:13             ` Wolfgang Denk
2007-09-18 19:09   ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2007-09-18 20:57     ` Ulf Samuelsson
2007-09-18 22:11       ` Wolfgang Denk
2007-09-18 22:52         ` Ulf Samuelsson
2007-09-19  7:07           ` [U-Boot-Users] Ethernet ports Yasothabalan
2007-09-19 13:45             ` Detlev Zundel
2007-09-19 18:07             ` Wolfgang Denk
2007-09-21  0:02           ` [U-Boot-Users] At91rm9200 buildroot Leonid

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