Configurable IP Address

From: andrerev (andrew_revell_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/24/05 

Date: 23 Feb 2005 23:21:22 -0800

Hi all,

I have a questions regarding how to make the IP address within Windows
CE configurable.

Some background:
I have built an OS image for Windows CE 5.0 (using Platform builder)
and a gateway style app (using CF). Up to now, I have let it simply
pick up an IP address using DHCP. This poses two difficulities:

1) We cannot rely on all the networks we deploy to having DHCP (or can
we??)
2) The device is headless, so the IP given by DHCP will a bit hard to
find out.

We could use a host name, but does this rely on their being a DNS on
the network? Is this a big assumption?

Anyway, getting to my real question... Can I assign a certain IP
address to the windows ce device, that is "picked up" at runtime? I can
compile an IP address into the registry, but I need to be able change
this either while booting or after booting. I was thinking either
through registry manipulation or calls to the win api. This is so our
clients can set the IP address to whatever they want, and not be stuck
with the one we ship.

Thoughts? Is this impossible and I should really just always use DHCP?

Thanks,
Andrew

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