[U-Boot-Users] [newbie]: ping implementation

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <74499824050525121565eaea85 at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
> 
> The question is: I managed to boot the MP8260ADS with u-boot. I

Congrats.

> configured the network. I tried to ping it from the host pc and get
> "host unreachable" message.

Correct. This is the expected behaviour.

> Instead if i ping the host from the board i get only "the host is
> alive" message.

Correct. This is the expected behaviour.

> I don't think this is completely normal. Am I wrong?

Why don't you think this is normal? It is.

> Another matter is the "Bad Magic Number" notice just before the u-boot
> prompt. I searched for help about it but did not find anything. What
> does it mean?

You probably use some automatic boot command which tries  to  boot  a
Linux  kernel  image  which  is  not where it was expected, so U-Boot
complains about the bad magic number. What does  your  definition  of
"bootcmd" look like?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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