[U-Boot-Users] Passing IP address to kernel

[JobHunts02 at aol.com]

Should U-Boot be able to pass the board's IP address to the kernel?


Immediately after logging in, I cannot ping.  ifconfig shows the correct 
hardware address that was set in U-Boot, but not the IP address, which was 
similarly set in U-Boot.  Also, many of the statistical fields have garbage data in 
them (see below).  If I then set the IP address, ifconfig returns the IP 
address and the other fields are correct.  Then, I can ping.


Is this the expected behavior?


Thank you.







                                                                              
  

(none) login: root

login[44]: root login  on `ttyS0'

                                                                              
  

# ping 10.174.100.14

PING 10.174.100.14 (10.174.100.14): 56 data bytes

ping: sendto: Network is unreachable

# ifconfig eth0

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 1A:34:01:9C:69:15

          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

          RX packets:4039443 errors:1743791573 dropped:0 overruns:0 
frame:1156359170

          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:4144766653 txqueuelen:1000

          RX bytes:1290872887 (1231.0 MiB)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 iB)

                                                                              
  

# ifconfig eth0 address 10.174.100.211

eth0: OPEN

BD rings initialised, RBASE=3D8160, TBASE=3D8360

# ifconfig eth0

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 1A:34:01:9C:69:15

          inet addr:10.174.100.211  Bcast:10.255.255.255  Mask:255.0.0.0

          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

          RX bytes:0 (0.0 iB)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 iB)

# ping 10.174.100.14

PING 10.174.100.14 (10.174.100.14): 56 data bytes

64 bytes from 10.174.100.14: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=1.1 ms

64 bytes from 10.174.100.14: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.5 ms

64 bytes from 10.174.100.14: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.5 ms

64 bytes from 10.174.100.14: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.5 ms

64 bytes from 10.174.100.14: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.5 ms

64 bytes from 10.174.100.14: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=0.5 ms

64 bytes from 10.174.100.14: icmp_seq=6 ttl=64 time=0.5 ms

64 bytes from 10.174.100.14: icmp_seq=7 ttl=64 time=0.6 ms

64 bytes from 10.174.100.14: icmp_seq=8 ttl=64 time=0.5 ms

                                                                              
  

--- 10.174.100.14 ping statistics ---

9 packets transmitted, 9 packets received, 0% packet loss

round-trip min/avg/max = 0.5/0.5/1.1 ms

                                                                              
  

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