In order to create a connection to your lwip device, the client must be able to translate the host-name to an IP address. Traditionally, this has meant teaching the local DNS server that the name "lwip" translates to IP address X.X.X.X. The DHCP host-name option provided by the lwip device can factor into this if the DHCP server and the DNS server coordinate appropriately. (However, in the traditional model, the lwip device is *not* directly involved in the actual name-to-IP-address translation.)
It is possible to do this without a dedicated DNS server or DHCP server, but the client host and your device would need to implement "zero configuration networking" (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_configuration_networking as a starting point). Jeff On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Sägesser Walter <walter.saeges...@solon.com> wrote: > I have tried to give my device a name, i.e. I set 'LWIP_NETIF_HOSTNAME' to > 1 and left the default setting ("lwip") in the initialisation code. At > startup DHCP is assigning an IP and I can PING the device with this address > (and also the web server works by it). But I can't ping with the host name > 'lwip'. What else must be done to convince the device that it should listen > to its name, too? > (The final goal is to access the web server by name in order to configure a > IP manually if there is no DHCP server around). > > Many thanks > Walter > > _____________________________ > > SOLON Inverters AG > Burgerfeldstrasse 19 > CH-8730 Uznach SG, Schweiz > > Phone: +41 55 246 41 14 > Direct: +41 55 246 58 52 > Fax: +41 55 246 41 16 > www.solon.com > > > > > _______________________________________________ > lwip-users mailing list > lwip-users@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lwip-users > _______________________________________________ lwip-users mailing list lwip-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lwip-users
