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Re: Customer wants to switch off ethernet !
On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 17:05 +0100, Manfred Gruber wrote:
> Am Freitag, 27. Januar 2006 16:48 schrieb Gary Thomas:
> > On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 16:44 +0100, Manfred Gruber wrote:
> > > Hi !
> > >
> > > One small question about ethernet on redboot. My customer wants that on
> > > redboot the ethernet configuration is disabled. So he don't want to have
> > > a default configuration in redboot. Would it then be enough to put all
> > > IP-Addresses to 0.0.0.0 like it is when you start up redboot the first
> > > time, or would this produce problems.
> >
> > I'm not sure that would be sufficient - maybe if you choose static IP.
> >
> > Perhaps better yet would be to just remove network support from
> > RedBoot completely:
> >
> > % ecosconfig remove eth_drivers
> >
> > This will disable all network functions.
>
> Hi !
>
> Remove ethernet support is not the solution for the customer. He only wants
> not that the default IP-configuration of redboot could make problems when he
> sells the board to someone other. He wants to have a Ip-Address in redboot
> which could not confict with other IP-Adresses, but the only one which I know
> was 0.0.0.0 all other Adresse "could" confict.
>
> how do others do this with redboot? they leave one static Ip-Adress and if
> there is a confict, the confict is only a very small time (boot of redboot)
> which make no problem ???
Set up the device once (first time), run 'fconfig' and select
the static IP addresses you want. From then on, that's what
he'll get.
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