Should U-Boot be able to pass the board's IP address to the kernel?
Immediately after logging in, I cannot ping. ifconfig shows the correct hardware address that was set in U-Boot, but not the IP address, which was similarly set in U-Boot. Also, many of the statistical fields have garbage data in them (see below). If I then set the IP address, ifconfig returns the IP address and the other fields are correct. Then, I can ping.
Is this the expected behavior?
Thank you.
(none) login: root
login[44]: root login on `ttyS0'
# ping 10.174.100.14
PING 10.174.100.14 (10.174.100.14): 56 data bytes
ping: sendto: Network is unreachable
# ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 1A:34:01:9C:69:15
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:4039443 errors:1743791573 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:1156359170
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:4144766653 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1290872887 (1231.0 MiB) TX bytes:0 (0.0 iB)
# ifconfig eth0 address 10.174.100.211
eth0: OPEN
BD rings initialised, RBASE=3D8160, TBASE=3D8360
# ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 1A:34:01:9C:69:15
inet addr:10.174.100.211 Bcast:10.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 iB) TX bytes:0 (0.0 iB)
# ping 10.174.100.14
PING 10.174.100.14 (10.174.100.14): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 10.174.100.14: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=1.1 ms
64 bytes from 10.174.100.14: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.5 ms
64 bytes from 10.174.100.14: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.5 ms
64 bytes from 10.174.100.14: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.5 ms
64 bytes from 10.174.100.14: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.5 ms
64 bytes from 10.174.100.14: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=0.5 ms
64 bytes from 10.174.100.14: icmp_seq=6 ttl=64 time=0.5 ms
64 bytes from 10.174.100.14: icmp_seq=7 ttl=64 time=0.6 ms
64 bytes from 10.174.100.14: icmp_seq=8 ttl=64 time=0.5 ms
--- 10.174.100.14 ping statistics ---
9 packets transmitted, 9 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 0.5/0.5/1.1 ms
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