On 08/11/11 18:54, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
I am faced with a challenge that we ship devices which are
all preconfigured to a fixed IP address, and we want to provide
an easy solution to do remote IP configuration of all devices
connected to the same network.
In other words - all devices are
I am faced with a challenge that we ship devices which are
all preconfigured to a fixed IP address, and we want to provide
an easy solution to do remote IP configuration of all devices
connected to the same network.
In other words - all devices are reachable by a broadcast package.
The network
On Tue, 2011-11-08 at 19:54 +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
The idea is to use an UDP broadcast to discover all devices,
and a similar UDP broadcast to configure the devices.
In the latter the MAC will be the key to address individual devices.
You could almost be describing link-local IPv6. Each
On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 07:11:09PM +, David Woodhouse wrote:
On Tue, 2011-11-08 at 19:54 +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
The idea is to use an UDP broadcast to discover all devices,
and a similar UDP broadcast to configure the devices.
In the latter the MAC will be the key to address
On 09/11/11 08:31, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 07:11:09PM +, David Woodhouse wrote:
On Tue, 2011-11-08 at 19:54 +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
The idea is to use an UDP broadcast to discover all devices,
and a similar UDP broadcast to configure the devices.
In the latter the