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Altera_Forum
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11 years ago

NicheStack - changing IP address without rebooting

Hi, is there a way of changing IP address of the Nios2 without rebooting the whole Nios? Looking through the sources of iniche I can see there is only a alt_iniche_init() procedure, but nothi...
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10 years ago

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I believe you're looking for ni_set_config(). See net.h and iface.c in the iniche files. 


/* FUNCTION: ni_set_config()
 * 
 * set IP address and subnet for a particular device.
 *
 * PARAM1: NET ifp
 * PARAM2: struct niconfig_0 * cfg
 *
 * RETURNS: 0
 */

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the proposed solution worked just fine until I realized I need the possibility to change the gateway as well. Are you aware of any such function to allow me that?