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14 years ago

Talking with Nios Socket Server from a host

I am working with Nios II Simple Socket Server sample running it on the Cyclon III board. When connected to the corporate LAN, this program gets dynamic IP address from DHCP and shows it in the conso...
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14 years ago

I think you need to set your dhcp server to give that system a fixed IP address (based on it's MAC address).

You can then setup your DNS server to map the machines name to that IP address.

The dhcp server can also give the system it's hostname - but that is for internal use only, and may be ignored by the NicheStack code.