On Monday 26 June 2006 20:47, Josh Koffman wrote:
> Here are a few ideas I've had:
> 1. Hardcode everything. Not such a great option IMO, especially if the
> 2. Have some sort of discovery program that runs as a PC application
> 3. Some sort of intelligent controller (ie PDA or custom built

> This isn't pressing, I don't think I will be working on these projects
> any time soon, but man those Xports are tempting. So what would you
> do?

i've not actually done these things before.. so, take this with a grain of 
salt..

4. Ideally, your device should be preconfigured to some private IP address, 
like 10.0.0.1 or whatever.. Then, you can connect it to a network, 
temporarily modify your PC to be in the same IP range and connect to the 
device..

Then, you can either implement a simple "telnet" server or even run a 
small "web server" that displays a configuration page.. For future 
connections, you can even implement a small dhcp client..

5. However, from your description, it seems that you might like your devices 
to be "auto configured".. then, you may want to implement a small dhcp client 
in your device.. but this requires that you have a DHCP server running on the 
network.. it could use it's MAC address as a "hostname" identifier to the 
server.. You can group your devices under a common MAC identifier..

cheers..

with metta,
shawn tan.
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