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Altera_Forum
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9 years ago

DHCP times out in ethernet example

I try to run the example "Nios II Ethernet Simple Socket Server on MAX 10 FPGA Development Kit". However, instead of "Acquired IP address via DHCP client for interface: et1¨ in step 7 o...
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Altera_Forum
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9 years ago

Thanks for your help. I finally solved the problem as follows:

- Disabling DHCP in the BSP

- Giving the PC a fixed IP address

I do not know why this works, although I can imagine that

things get less complicated due to these measures. At least now

it is fun to follow the simple communication with Wireshark.