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Re: Tcp Stack problems - CVS

From: Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn dot ch>
To: kevin_lemay at agilent dot com
Cc: maj1224 at yahoo dot com, ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 22:35:43 +0100
Subject: Re: [ECOS]Tcp Stack problems - CVS
References: <1BEBA5E8600DD4119A50009027AF54A010FAE469@axcs04.cos.agilent.com>

> So there appears to be a conflict with using DHCP and the TCP/IP
> stack in both redboot and the application.

Yep, the documentation tells you this.
 
> So can anyone explain on how redboot and a downloaded application share the TCP/IP stack?

There are two stacks. RedBoot has a very simple stack, and the
application has its own full blown stack.

> It would be great to get this fixed as my IT department hates to
> hand out static IP addresses.

Setup redboot to use bootp and the application to use dhcp. A
correctly configured server will give out two different IP addresses.

       Andrew

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