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:

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 "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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