Geir Thomassen wrote: > > I an building an embedded system, which doesn't have any keyboard > or display. The system is entirely controlled by a web interface. > > I want an easy way to configure the network for the first time. I > assume that the user know the MAC address of the embedded system. > > Here is my idea: > > 1) On any computer on the LAN do: > > arp -s <ip address> <mac address> > ping <ip address> > > let the ping run .... > > 2) Turn the embedded system on, and let it boot. Once up and running, > it switches the ethernet interface into promiscuous mode, and > listens for all ICMP packets with its MAC address. Once it finds > one, it decodes the IP address, and configures the interface with > that address and netmask 0.0.0.0. Do the interface need to be in promiscuous mode? The ping packet has after all a correct MAC address.... > 3) On the host computer run > > netscape http://ip address/ > > Goto cgi page with ip setup, set netmask, gateway, hostname etc. > > Will the above idea work ? -- Geir Thomassen geirt@powertech.no - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
