Re: Final static ip patch

Anselm Martin Hoffmeister wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 14.03.2006, 16:29 +0100 schrieb Ricardo Carrillo Cruz:
>> I suceeded to boot an image with a static ip address.
>> The patches  are attached to this email.
>>
>> Of course,feel free to post bugs or comments so we can improve the patch
>>
>> Regards to all and special thanks to Marty Connor for his suggestions
>> and David Aubin
>>
>> Ricardo Carrillo Cruz
> 
> This looks like a fairly clean way to setup static addresses. Great.
> 
> Nevertheless, I miss a "subnet mask" parameter that might be necessary
> in a setup that spans multiple physical networks but does not use
> default subnet classing (A /8, B /16, C /24). You could construct cases
> that make booting fail. We would be safe against this by having an
> additional compile time parameter like "bitmask length", or a
> dotted-quad subnet mask, of course.
> 
> Anselm

What about dhcp for the IP config stuff (ip, netmask and gateway), but a static 
tftp server and file name?  I am guessing I just need to remove most of the 
patch, but I would rather it gets done upstream by someone who knows what they 
are doing ;)

This would take care of the case where there is a dhcp server that doesn't have 
support for pxe (either the server can't or the admin wont).  not such a good 
idea for burning into a rom, but perfect for a floppy.

Carl K

ps - sorry for the spray of CCs - not sure how to reply to things on the old lists.


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