LAVA integration effort for Android validation

[Michael Hudson-Doyle]

On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 11:17:14 -0500, Paul Larson <paul.larson at linaro.org> wrote:
> > I like statically IP. How do we know which board would get which IP?
> > One idea would be to set up a DNS for internal board names. e.g.
> > panda01.internal.network would resolve to our preallocated static IP
> > for board "panda01".
> >
> > This could then be used by the dispatcher to resolve the IP and pass
> > it to the board through kernel cmdline.
> >
> > I hadn't really thought of passing it via cmdline.  If we need to bring it
> up statically, we could possibly do that, or possibly just make the
> necessary adjustments before booting the image.  What I was proposing, if
> the image is already set up to dhcp by default, we could run a dhcp server
> on the control node with the static ip assignments already in place for each
> board.

How would you do this?  Most boards don't have a fixed MAC address.  You
can set up a dhcp-name but that (AIUI) means a different rootfs for each
board and then you might as well just allocate a static IP...

> That way they always get the same address that we pre-allocated for
> that board.  We'll also need to make sure that the control node has a valid
> ip on both the internal and the external network.

Cheers,
mwh