From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wolfgang Denk Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 23:58:06 +0100 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] ethact, ethprim and NET_MULTI In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 09 Mar 2007 14:48:43 PST." Message-ID: 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 you wrote: > > what happens if all interfaces are failing - does it come back to > ethprime after trying them all and stops or does it keep trying until > stopped by the operator with an arbitrary interface as the current > one? It continues cycling through the configured interfaces. > That seemed to have happened to me: I tried using an interface, it did > not work, I went to see what happened, turned out the hub was down, > but after I brought the hub back online the thing still didn't work - > why - another interface became "current"! If you had waited for the second inteface to time out you would have seen that U-Boot re-tried the first one which then should have worked. > Also, in some situations it is harmful to expose internal IP addresses > on an external network - but u-boot would never have a second though > about it :-) It would not even have a first thought, as U-Boot never "exposes" any IP addresses if you use appropriate protocols like DHCP or BOOTP. All it "exposes" is it's MAC address. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, HRB 165235 Munich, CEO: Wolfgang Denk Office: Kirchenstr. 5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd at denx.de "I like your game but we have to change the rules."