Works fine, just do it.

The point previous answers was trying to make is that, if you _want_ to do something different, you will have to control the DHCP server. Since you don't want to do anything different, you don't have to do anything but boot.

gvb

At 09:20 PM 6/11/2003 -0400, kshitij@ti.com wrote:

hi, but the idea is to get a dynamic ip address, why do we need to change the DHCP server settings to give a special DHCP response to our machine. I have seen this happening with the linux kernel. The kernel also requests for a ip address using DHCP and then uses that ip address. Since an ideal way for a bootup is that I connect my device to the network, get and dynamic ip address and download the kernel from a remote machine.

This might be paranoid but is it possible with u-boot currently...??? regards -kshitij -----Original Message----- From: Marc Singer [mailto:elf@buici.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 8:53 PM To: Gupta, Kshitij Cc: 'u-boot Mailing List' Subject: Re: [U-Boot-Users] bootp/dhcp

That advice is for the paranoid. You can put your embedded dev board on a network with other machines, including a DHCP server, as long as the address you get from the server will satisfy your needs. There are ways of coercing the DHCP server to deliver a special DHCP response for your machine. In the case of the 'corporate' network, you may not have the option to twiddle the DHCP configuration.

On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 08:40:00PM +0530, Gupta, Kshitij wrote:

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hi, Can we send the bootp/dhcp requests over a LAN (which already has a DHCP) with u-boot. Since when I read the description of u-boot in the

book

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"Building Embedded Linux systems" , it explains that I should connect my board to a standalone linux machine using a crosscable and then I must configure the DHCP and TFTP services. But instead what I am planning to do is that if I connect my board to a corporate LAN then it can get an IP address from a DHCP server. Has anyone done this before with u-boot??? regards -kshitij

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