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RE: peculiar RedBoot network problem
- To: "'Jonathan Larmour'" <jlarmour at redhat dot com>
- Subject: RE: [ECOS] peculiar RedBoot network problem
- From: "Trenton D. Adams" <tadams at extremeeng dot com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 10:52:44 -0600
- Cc: "'eCos Discussion'" <ecos-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Organization: Extreme Engineering
>
> "Trenton D. Adams" wrote:
> >
> > > Have you set a static IP address in your CDL configuration? Or
in
> > your
> > > flash configuration?
> > >
> >
> > My flash configuration for RedBoot is a static IP. My
configuration
> for
> > eCos is DHCP.
>
> Do an fconfig -l and recheck that it's not using BOOTP.
>
> It's been suggested it may be something to do with the ARP cache on
your
> local machine. Try looking at that.
>
That was the first thing I did, but the BOOTP option is set to false.
It's fixed now because I downloaded RedBoot to the board again. I
didn't change the flash configuration because it stayed the same. So,
it's not an emergency. If you happen to think of another reason why it
might happen, let me know.