Hi,

I have written a small program which will change the network interface to either set to Static or DHCP. Program changes the following file /etc/network/interfaces with the below content

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback


auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

When i flash the image and boot the system, i see no DHCP ip being assigned to board. Do we need to have dhcp client running? If so, how do we intergate/enable it in the kernel?

Apart from setting to DHCP, i also change it to static, it still fails to populate this value on boot up.

Thanks
Prashanth

I was able to get dhcp client onto the baord and when i execute it, i get an ip but it is not refelcting it when i do ifconfig or in /etc/network/interface and is not pingable. Is their any other place where this updates happen where ifconfig reads it?

-Prashanth