Re: [ECOS] Notes on static configuration of an eCos network inte

[Gary Thomas <gthomas at redhat dot com>]

On 17-Jul-2000 Bart Veer wrote:
> I am not qualified to answer most of these points, but:
> 
>>>>>> "Nick" == Nick Barnes <Nick.Barnes@pobox.com> writes:
>     Nick> Notes on static configuration of an eCos network interface
> 
>     <snip>
>     Nick> 5.4. multiple static routes
> 
>     Nick> The config tool, build_bootp_record() and init_net() should
>     Nick> be extended to allow the specification of multiple static
>     Nick> routes, through TAG_IP_STATIC_ROUTES.
> 
> The current implementation of CDL does not allow for multiple
> instantiations of something, e.g. you cannot have a configuration
> option that says I want n routes, and then configuration options
> are created on the fly to support the new routes (or existing
> configuration options are removed).
> 
> Instead you could have an upper bound on the number of such routes and
> have the appropriate number of config options. Or you could put
> multiple routes into one configuration value, although extracting all
> the information at compile-time can then prove tricky. Alternatively
> the configury would support only the most common situation of a single
> route, with an opt-out to defer the whole thing to application code.
> I am not sure which of these approaches would be most appropriate in
> this case.
> 

Since these are just strings (IP dot notation) in the CDL, we could probably
make the code that processes them more flexible and handle the case of 
multiple addresses separated by spaces.