On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 11:17:14 -0500, Paul Larson <paul.lar...@linaro.org> wrote: > > I like statically IP. How do we know which board would get which IP? > > One idea would be to set up a DNS for internal board names. e.g. > > panda01.internal.network would resolve to our preallocated static IP > > for board "panda01". > > > > This could then be used by the dispatcher to resolve the IP and pass > > it to the board through kernel cmdline. > > > > I hadn't really thought of passing it via cmdline. If we need to bring it > up statically, we could possibly do that, or possibly just make the > necessary adjustments before booting the image. What I was proposing, if > the image is already set up to dhcp by default, we could run a dhcp server > on the control node with the static ip assignments already in place for each > board.
How would you do this? Most boards don't have a fixed MAC address. You can set up a dhcp-name but that (AIUI) means a different rootfs for each board and then you might as well just allocate a static IP... > That way they always get the same address that we pre-allocated for > that board. We'll also need to make sure that the control node has a valid > ip on both the internal and the external network. Cheers, mwh _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
