On Sun, 1 Jul 2018 15:12:09 +0200, Newdo  declaimed the
following:

>Am 01.07.2018 um 14:37 schrieb Martin Gregorie:
>> - Use the DHCP on your router or run a DHCP server somewhere else
>>    on your LAN and use it to associate an IP with the RPi's adapter MAC
>No DHCP, no router, only a service laptop connected to a couple of
>measurement devices.

 Through what? Direct (cross-over) cable from laptop to RPi... One at a
time? Or is there a hub/switch in the system from which multiple RPis are
dangling?



>The MAC address ist known, laptop configured somehow.

 Install and configure a DHCP server on the laptop so it assigns the IPs
when connected to the RPis... I'm presuming Windows laptop so...

http://www.dhcpserver.de/cms/

If the laptop is running some form of Linux/Unix -- check the distribution
repositories for DHCP (dnsmasq, for example, or isc-dhcp -- both available
in Debian).

 If you have a slew of RPis always connected to a switch, and only
connect the laptop to download logs, it might be worth configuring one of
the RPi units as a DHCP server issuing (static) IPs to the rest, along with
issuing an IP when the laptop is connected.


>The technician shall be provided with a configuration tool to submit an
>IP to each device that will be used to download recorded measurement
>files via FTP.

 That's basically a DHCP server running on the laptop...


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