On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 6:24 AM, Sachin Kamat <sachin.ka...@linaro.org> wrote: > > > On 16 March 2011 10:03, Michael Hudson-Doyle <michael.hud...@canonical.com> > wrote: >> >> 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... >> > Also, some boards of the same type have the same MAC as well..
Is setting a static IP for those boards actually enough or do we also need to set some reasonable MAC? -- - Alexander _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
