Re: How to configure 2 ethernet devices

In message [off-list ref] Dan Malek wrote:

If you like to use DNS, routing or other networking features you have
to use some kind of userland configuration to make that happen.

Rigth, for more complicated configurations this is the way to go.

I think it's kind of amusing when you use "dynamic" configuration to
get a network configuration to boot a kernel, then have a bunch of
static configuration files to support the application environment :-)
If you are always booting from the same server on the same static
network, why not just boot a ramdisk with some static configuration
and network set up?  It will boot up faster.

But we don't have a static configuration. We use something like this:

=> setenv bootargs $(bootargs) ip=$(ipaddr):$(serverip):$(gatewayip):$(netmask):$(hostname):$(netdev):off

Right,  we  use  PPCBoot  as  firmware  and  get  all  the  "dynamic"
configuration   by  PPCBoot's  feature  to  define,  store,  and  use
variables.

If you are truly using a dynamic environment where you could plug in
anywhere and have the application automatically adapt, you need to
follow through with dynamic userland configuration.

... not when we can pass all the necessary parameters on the  command
line (or in bi_recs :-)

Wolfgang Denk

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