On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote: > The management program can then send another broadcast packet to > configure the IP address of a device. After that, the management > program switches over to normal unicast TCP and UDP protocols (HTTP, > TFTP, etc.) to set up the device. >
Wonder if it would be possible to (ab)use DHCP for this. If every device registers itself with a central DHCP server, you could query that to find out what's around, and configuring of IP addresses would then be out of your hands. Or can you simply use a stupid netmask like /1 that picks up all the IP ranges? That way, the source-IP check wouldn't fail. Chris Angelico -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list