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3.1 BOOTP Server

Just after being power up, the microphone array is doing a bootp request on the network. You need on a computer, in direct liaison or connected through a switch, a DHCP daemon.

The DHCP protocol allows a host which is unknown to the network administrator to be automatically assigned a new ip address out of a pool of ip addresses for its network. In order for this to work, the network administrator allocates address pools in each subnet and enters them into the /etc/dhcpd.conf file. On startup, DHCP reads that file and stores a list of available addresses on each subnet in memory.

First, you need to create the file as administrator on the machine /etc/dhcpd.conf

Here is a copy of the file dhcpd.conf dhcpd.conf

In order to activate the daemon you have to enter the following command:

> dhcpd

Now the green led closest to the sram memory should light.

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Cedrick Rochet 2005-09-21