Static IP Address

It has already been noted that each network node has an IP address. If the IP address is 'static' then it is pre-assigned and never changed.

The FreeRTOS+TCP API function FreeRTOS_IPInit() takes a default IP address (among other addresses) as one of its parameters. The default IP address is used as a static IP address if ipconfigUSE_DHCP is set to 0, or if ipconfigUSE_DHCP is set to 1 but a DHCP server cannot be contacted.

Useful links:

• TCP/IP Networking Basics
• FreeRTOS+TCP networking tutorial

Other networking basics pages:

• Ethernet Networking and Addressing
• MTU - Maximum Transmission Unit
• IP Networking
• IP Network Addressing
• ARP - Address Resolution Protocol
• Subnets / Netmasks
• Gateways and Routers
• UDP Networking
• TCP Networking
• MSS - Maximum Segment Size
• Port Numbers
• Sockets
• Binding
• Clients and Servers
• Static IP Addresses
• DHCP - Dynamic Host Control Protocol
• Name Resolution
• DNS - Domain Name Service
• LLMNR - Link-local Multicast Name Resolution
• NBNS - NetBIOS Name Service
• Bytes Order and Endian