From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Warren Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 23:40:54 -0500 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] Duplicate IP address check In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <47805BD6.9070109@gmail.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Hi Dan, Dan Batryn wrote: > Due to a mis-configuration of our DHCP server there was an overlapping range of DHCP assigned IP address and units configured to have IP addresses statically assigned. I was surprised to find that UBOOT did not complain of a duplicate IP address while trying to boot via the network. Looking through the source I cannot see any code to perform the typical ARP for yourself check that I have seen before. Could someone please tell me if I have overlooked something or is this feature missing? > > There is no explicit check for duplicate IP assignment. U-boot's networking code is intentionally minimalist and thus lacks many such features. Feel free to provide a patch and a convincing argument of why it's needed. regards, Ben