[U-Boot] [PATCH 5/9] apf9328: add default board configuration file

[Stefano Babic <sbabic@denx.de>]

On 08/24/2011 06:56 AM, Eric Jarrige wrote:
> Dear Wolfgang, Dear Stefano,

Hi Eric,

>>> We really need a set of default IP addresses for private network to simplify as much as possible the life of the armadeus project developers. 
>>
>> And what makes you think that 192.168.0.10 might be a free IP address
>> in my network?  Or assume that 255.255.255.0 is the right netmask in
>> this network?
> 
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1918#page-4

Really RFC1918 reservs only IP addresses for private use, but there is
nothing regarding a "default" IP address. And nothing different as usual
how to assign the addresses to the hosts.

To set a static IP address when DHCP is not available (a sort of
autoconfiguration without DHCP server), the link-local address range
should be used (169.254.0.0/16), described in
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3927.
It sets a random IP in the range and checks with ARP that the address is
not already used in the network. However, it is outside the goals of a
bootloader ;-)

Best regards,
Stefano babic

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