Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2009-04-22, Tarmo Kuuse <tarmo.kuuse@mail.ee> wrote:
Tarmo Kuuse wrote:
I wish to add basic "plug-and-play" networking to an eCos device. It
should be a fairly standard task in network-enabled embedded devices.
All users would like to hook their stuff to a network and access the UI
by typing "mydevice" into a browser.
No replies. Apparently plug-and-play is not hip with eCos
developers :)
No, I just have no idea what "plug-and-play networking" means
in this context.
To me, "plug-and-play" refers to a mostly-broken scheme to
auto-detect ISA cards in old-school PCs and configure their IO
addresses and IRQ usage automagically. IIRC, it didn't work.
The PnP TLA has subsequently been overloaded and extended to give UPnP,
which is what I think the original question was about. See:
http://www.upnp.org/
I agree with the OP that it would be a useful addition to eCos to
include support for device-side UPnP, since this is now a pretty
standard feature on networked consumer gadgets.