udev rule for the freerunner or make usb networking enduser friendly

Al Johnson openmoko at mazikeen.demon.co.uk
Thu Sep 10 13:26:02 CEST 2009


On Wednesday 02 September 2009, Olivier Migeot wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 6:41 AM, c_c<cchandel at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >  Same here - just a static ip for the fr's mac address on ubuntu works
> > great for me.
>
> I've been on static IP for quite a while, but between work and home it
> was starting to get messy. With udhcpd, it's now much more convenient.
> I could even decide to change the Moko's network for something less
> common than 192.168.0.0 at no cost.
>
> The best would be to have a very light dhcpd daemon who only runs on
> USB insertion, serves only one address with a very long lease, and
> then dies after a few minutes. But maybe I'm dreaming there ;)

Check dnsmasq which is available in OE, and provides a lightweight caching DNS 
server and DHCP server. I don't know if it's in the SHR feeds or not, but it 
worked well when I tried it a while back.




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