- Wed Feb 11, 2004 8:00 am
#623
We know that we can change the IP number in the code and we have already other IP number ( from a computer from our laboratory) to work with the board web server.
But what we need is a new number from the school, not the computer one, because when the computer is working our webserver doesn't work, so we asked for a local IP new number and they want the ID number of the MSP microcontroller, something like a serial number ... I don't know why,I don't know how to find it ,is not in the code, is not the software, is the hardware, and the microcontroller is under the Display so I can't see anything!
Is that ID number really needed? If yes, how can I know it?
Thank you very much.
Greetings.
But what we need is a new number from the school, not the computer one, because when the computer is working our webserver doesn't work, so we asked for a local IP new number and they want the ID number of the MSP microcontroller, something like a serial number ... I don't know why,I don't know how to find it ,is not in the code, is not the software, is the hardware, and the microcontroller is under the Display so I can't see anything!
Is that ID number really needed? If yes, how can I know it?
Thank you very much.
Greetings.
I'm surprised that MAC address works. An odd address in the first byte is considered by most TCP stacks to be a multicast address. I guess that most IP stacks are written to accept an odd result from ARP even though that can't be right. Given that you don't seem to have an IEEE OUI, you really ought to be using 02:03:04:05:06:07 as the MAC address. The 02 in the first byte means "locally assigned". You are then responsible for ensuring that the address is unique on your LAN. You'll really screw up the network if you reuse the same Ethernet address for two different machines.