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

[Karthik Vadambacheri Manian]

On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 12:32 AM, address@hidden <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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.
>
Basically I want to ping from a unix box not a windows box. I tried
setting NETBIOS_LWIP_NAME but as you said it works for windows only.
So without using DHCP in LWIP is there a way to set the hostname which
I can ping from another m/c?

Thanks for your inputs Simon.

Regards,
karthik