RE: Rabbit and DHCP

["Dr John Tankard" <john@xxxxxxx>]

> John,
>
> That's more or less why I chose that little dhcp server,
> since it assigns a 'static'  ip for a particlar MAC address.. > I suppose I could just pick a
> separate range and use that but I kinda liked the idea of
> being able to assign the ip to the devices and use DNS to
> refer to them but being sure that I wouldn't have a conflict.
>
> I'm actually trying to think a head a little... Last night
> (well early am this morning I was doing some browsing and
> came across an ethernet temperature monitor. They wanted
> something like =A3260 for it then =A340 for the probes. I
> reckoned even if I used a rabbit, a basic stamp and a ds1620
> I'd still get in at well under a third of their total cost.
> The intention was to work out how to hang the stamp and
> rabbit together (I know a pic would make things even cheaper
> but I have very little experience of them) Once I'd done that
> it would just be a case of defining the ip in the dhcp
> server, adding a dns entry eg.
> livingroom.temperature.mydomain.com and then plugging it
> in...It would mean that I could just compile the code to a
> .bin file and then just build the units and download the code.
>
> I'd then have a server component to collect all the readings
> from the devices...
>
> I hope that sort of explains why I wanted to use dhcp...
>


I have used DHCP to get a address and it worked but I am using W2k
server.

Re your project, why not write the code on the rabbit to provide the 1
wire interface there ? I have not looked but there might even be
examples in the code lib's to do this.

John

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