Cannot get Dynamic IP address

[Eric Norum]

There's not enough information here to really determine the problem.
What do your application's network configuration structure initializers look like?  Are you sure that you've set them up to use DHCP to set the address dynamically?

On May 17, 2011, at 10:21 AM, João Rasta wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have used rtems_bsdnet_initialize_network() to initialize the networking stack with success in an ad-hoc connection. However now i'm connecting the RTEMS system to a router, from where it should get a dynamic IP. However, when I do:
> 
>     rtems_bsdnet_initialize_network ();
>     rtems_bsdnet_show_inet_routes();
>     rtems_bsdnet_show_if_stats();
> 
> The stats allways show it recognizes the same gateway IP and allways attributes the same fixed IP:
> 
> 
> greth: driver attached
> **** PHY ****
> Vendor: 5043   Device: c   Revision: 2
> Current Operating Mode: 100 Mbit Full Duplex
> Autonegotiation Time: 1668ms
> Destination     Gateway/Mask/Hw    Flags     Refs     Use Expire Interface
> default         192.168.0.1        UGS         0        0      0 gr_eth1
> 192.168.0.0     255.255.255.0      U           0        0      4 gr_eth1
> 192.168.0.1                        UHL         1        0      4 gr_eth1
> ************ INTERFACE STATISTICS ************
> ***** gr_eth1 *****
> Ethernet Address: 00:80:7F:22:61:79
> Address:192.168.0.67    Broadcast Address:192.168.0.255   Net mask:255.255.255.0
> Flags: Up Broadcast Running Simplex
> Send queue limit:50   length:0    Dropped:0
>       Rx Interrupts:0             Rx Packets:0                 Length:0              Non-octet:0
>             Bad CRC:0                Overrun:0             Tx Interrupts:0             Maximal Frags:1
> 
> 
> After the Autonegotiation i would expect it to return an IP such as 10.101.etc. Also the gateway should be 10.101.etc. What am I missing?
> 
> 
> Best,
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