Re: [Etherboot-developers] [Etherboot-users] Final static ip patch

[Anselm M. H. <an...@ho...>]

Am Dienstag, den 14.03.2006, 16:29 +0100 schrieb Ricardo Carrillo Cruz:
> I suceeded to boot an image with a static ip address.
> The patches  are attached to this email.
> 
> Of course,feel free to post bugs or comments so we can improve the patch
> 
> Regards to all and special thanks to Marty Connor for his suggestions
> and David Aubin
> 
> Ricardo Carrillo Cruz

This looks like a fairly clean way to setup static addresses. Great.

Nevertheless, I miss a "subnet mask" parameter that might be necessary
in a setup that spans multiple physical networks but does not use
default subnet classing (A /8, B /16, C /24). You could construct cases
that make booting fail. We would be safe against this by having an
additional compile time parameter like "bitmask length", or a
dotted-quad subnet mask, of course.

Anselm