Re: [lwip-users] Setting the netif hostname without using DHCP

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 Karthik Vadambacheri Manian wrote:
> I checked on the lwip archive for previous discussions on this topic.
> Few threads adviced to use the contrib/apps/netbios/netbios.c file.
> They asked to set NETBIOS_LWIP_NAME to the host name and call
> netbios_init().
> I have set the NETBIOS_LWIP_NAME to the required hostname and called
> netbios_init() after tcpip_init(). But still I could not ping using
> hostname but I can ping using statically defined IP. Kindly let me
> know what I am missing here?
First of all, the netbios name service only helps when you try to ping 
*from* windows, not from any unix. If so, you might want to try to write 
the name for NETBIOS_LWIP_NAME in uppercase, as the code uses strcmp and 
windows sends the name uppercase, too.

Simon