In message 000f01c47550$8fb7fe10$4a50848a@settimo.italtel.it you wrote:
The BOOTP/DHCP code just uses the value stored in the "NetOurEther" variable. To me this looks OK.
yes, I see it and it's OK.
Fine.
Yes, You are right, I made some confusion with this define. Looking better the code seems all OK. Sorry for my mistake.
Don't worry; we all have our blind spots.
My intention is to launch dhcp and tftp in a function that control the result; in case of failure the boot process will be aborted sending a communication over IPMI using a proprietari SMS interface based on SCC. I looked the code for see if with CONFIG_NET_MULTI the dhcp process return an error code or loop until ^C is pressed. From the code seems that after all the interface configured, netRestartWrap go to 1, so a return of -1 is made bacause NetState assume the NETLOOP_FAIL value. This is exactly all I wanted.
Don't waste your time writing new code for such functionality. Just enable the hush shell as parser and implement it as a shell command / script, for example something like that
run dhcp_cmd || run tftp_cmd || run ipmi_cmd
You have the power of shell programming available for free - use it!
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk