Hi Stefano,
On 24 août 2011, at 08:22, Stefano Babic wrote:
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?
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 ;-)
Correct, U-Boot does not support this protocol that is moreover limited to devices "directly connected to the same physical/logical link".
Best regards, Eric