Re: [ECOS] DHCP problems

[Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc dot com>]

On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 03:48 -0500, Steve West wrote:
> I tried the latest version of eCos and DHCP still does not work. Here are 
> some observations. I put prints in udp_usrreg.c for rec a bcast and 
> discarding it. When DHCP runs there are no bcast msgs. After DHCP runs and 
> the net_init is done, there are many bcast msgs and all are dropped (I have 
> no sockets using bcast in the app). It seems that the bring_up_half does not 
> bring up the rec, at least for bcast.

You've still not told us much.  
  What platform is this?  What network driver is being used?
  Are you running RedBoot?  
   If so, does DHCP work there?  or a fixed IP address?
  Is this a problem with an eCos [not RedBoot] application?

> 
> Steve
> 
> >
> > The address is mac ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff & 255.255.255.255. I checked my old 
> > working version (1.xx) to this one and there is no difference in the 
> > discover and the offer. There must be a problem with receiving broadcast 
> > frames. Both TCP & UDP work fine. The eCos snapshot I took is about a 
> > month old. I am going to take the latest off the Ecoscentric site and try 
> > that.
> 

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