On 03/02/2012 12:34, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Thursday 26 January 2012 04:21:21 Stefano Babic wrote: >> On 26/01/2012 00:40, Joe Hershberger wrote: >>>> I have a basic question about your patchset. RFC3927 requires >>>> that addresses are continuosly checked to avoid conflicts - >>>> this is a strict requirement. >>> >>> True. It cannot be 100% compliant in every use-case. >> >> It is important that these limitations are well documented >> >>> Any time we are processing NetLoop, we will handle conflict >>> correctly. >> >> Yes, but NetLoop is running only when there some activity on the >> network. > > isn't that the only time that matters ? if we're sitting at the > command prompt, then u-boot has the network pretty much shut off > (doesn't respond to ARP let alone anything higher).
This is true, but what does happen with a second / multiple boards on the network ? Some of them can steal the same ip address because our board does not answer and conflicts are not solved. At least, I am expecting that some ip address suddenly changes and that can be some inconsistencies in ARP tables. Stefano -- ===================================================================== DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: +49-8142-66989-0 Fax: +49-8142-66989-80 Email: off...@denx.de ===================================================================== _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
