[En-Nut-Discussion] Register hostname for Ethernut

[Daniel]

Hi all.

Thanks for the replies. Now I understand the mechanism. Then I will use
Bernd's suggestion to print the MAC to the device. The network configuration
is part of the customer's administrator.

Thanks to all,
Daniel

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Betreff: Re: [En-Nut-Discussion] Register hostname for Ethernut

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Bernd Walter <enut at cicely.de> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 10:22:44AM -0500, Nathan Moore wrote:
> > It is possible to have a DHCP server register the name on a local 
> > DNS server, which may run on the same machine as the DHCP server, or 
> > even be the same program.
>
> Yes it is possible, but it is still the job of the network 
> configuration and not of the ethernut device.
> The only fixed data of a delivered ethernut device is the MAC.
> print it onto the device.
> If you search a device you can ping your network broadcast and look 
> into your arp table.
> http://www.ethernut.de/en/documents/nutapps.html
> Part IP configuration tells the commands required.
>
> There was also some kind of broadcast based IP configuration service.
> Start the windows based configurator and it lists all ethernut devices 
> in your LAN running this service.
> I can't find the reference right now.
>

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