On 08/11/11 18:54, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > I am faced with a challenge that we ship devices which are > all preconfigured to a fixed IP address, and we want to provide > an easy solution to do remote IP configuration of all devices > connected to the same network. > In other words - all devices are reachable by a broadcast package. > > The network may or may not include a DHCP server - which > we in any case do not have control over. > > In the typical situation we will assign static IP > addresses to the devices - but sometimes we may also > configure them to DHCP. > > So we are looking for a (de facto?) way to do this. > Any hints? > > I haved tried to ask google without luck. > > The idea is to use an UDP broadcast to discover all devices, > and a similar UDP broadcast to configure the devices. > In the latter the MAC will be the key to address individual devices. > > As we are talking less than 100 devices this looks quite doable. > But I do not want to invent something again if it already exists. > > Thanks in advance for any inputs, > Isn't this one of the things that Avahi daemon is supposed to achieve? Martyn -- Martyn Welch (Lead Software Engineer) | Registered in England and Wales GE Intelligent Platforms | (3828642) at 100 Barbirolli Square T +44(0)1327322748 | Manchester, M2 3AB E martyn.welch@xxxxxx | VAT:GB 927559189 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
