Have you considered using DHCP? It would work a lot better, as you won't have to worry about duplicate IPs or invalid IPs. I think you'll have to write a new globalvar for barebox to get a random value, since the shell doesn't support backtick substitution. On Thu, 2016-05-12 at 21:34 +0200, Giorgio wrote: > Hi, > > I'm writing a shell script within barebox to assist an embedded board > initialization process. Some commands in the script do firmware > download with tftp; to allow initializing more than one board at > a time I need to assign every board a random ip address; I would > like to have a shell variable that every time it is dereferenced > it results in a new random (8 bits) value so I could write: > > eth0.ipaddr=10.$RND.$RND.$RND > > Is there a way to do something similar in barebox ? > > giorgio > > > _______________________________________________ > barebox mailing list > barebox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox
