Re: [lwip-users] dynamic configuring

[Leon Woestenberg]

Hello Benjamin,

> Thanks in part  to your expertise, I am up and running lwip on a 5272
> platform; no small feat considering I started with a
>
Is that a Coldfire?

> have done).  If the network has a DHCP server, then we could use Leon's
DHCP
> code, and have the server dynamically assign our device an IP address.  By
> what process, then, does the name "our_device" that we're using in our
> application,  get associated with this dynamically assigned IP address?
Is
>
Not at all.

> this related to the "client ID" I see referred to in the DHCP lit, or is
> this what DNS does, or is there yet another way this kind of problem is
> handled?
>
In order to have an IP host name point to a certain IP address, DNS is
involved.

Now, there are DHCP servers that forward client-proposed names into the
DNS server, and us such, have the device name point to the IP address it
was dynamically assigned by the DHCP server.

> If you have any insight or can point me to literature, I'd appreciate it.
>
There might be some recent RFC on hooking up DNS with DHCP.
I know there are efforts to connect "BIND" and the Internet Consortium's
DHCP server.

Also, there is a way to have a client ask itself to be inserted into the
DNS server database by itself. I think recent Windows use this.

Unfortunately, I do not have any more info on this.

Leon.