From: Martyn Welch <martyn.welch@ge.com>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Linux-embedded <linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Remote IP setup of devices in a network
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 10:11:27 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EBA51CF.5040400@ge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111108185421.GA27727@merkur.ravnborg.org>
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 reachable by a broadcast package.
>
> The network may or may not include a DHCP server - which
> we in any case do not have control over.
>
> In the typical situation we will assign static IP
> addresses to the devices - but sometimes we may also
> configure them to DHCP.
>
> So we are looking for a (de facto?) way to do this.
> Any hints?
>
> I haved tried to ask google without luck.
>
> 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.
>
> As we are talking less than 100 devices this looks quite doable.
> But I do not want to invent something again if it already exists.
>
> Thanks in advance for any inputs,
>
Isn't this one of the things that Avahi daemon is supposed to achieve?
Martyn
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-09 10:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-08 18:54 Remote IP setup of devices in a network Sam Ravnborg
2011-11-08 19:11 ` David Woodhouse
2011-11-08 19:31 ` Sam Ravnborg
2011-11-08 23:30 ` Eliot Blennerhassett
2011-11-09 0:59 ` David Woodhouse
2011-11-09 10:11 ` Martyn Welch [this message]
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