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16 years ago

Help please. Setting a host name innichestack

I am develping an application based on the Simple Socket Server example and it works fine with a static IP address. I want to use DHCP in the final design, but have a problem in that the only connect...
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16 years ago

I've not done it yet, The pertinent code is found in "autoip.c". The function is at the bottom "dhc_hostname()". Here are the comments for the function: 

/* FUNCTION: dhc_hostname()
 *
 * Called from the DHCP client to get a valid hostname for this machine. This
 * is a default routine which returns a dummy name. The porting engineer is
 * expected to define GETHOSTNAME_ALREADY and replace this with a system
 * routine.
 *
 * Note - if MUST always return a string.
 *
 * PARAM1: none
 *
 * RETURNS: pointer to ascii hostname string
 */

So, define the MACRO "GETHOSTNAME_ALREADY" to the system library build then add a function dhc_hostname() to your code somewhere similar to what you do for get_mac_addr() and get_ip_addr().

Jake

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