[U-Boot-Users] RE: Ethernet loopback command
Jerry Van Baren
gerald.vanbaren at smiths-aerospace.com
Tue Mar 8 17:00:35 CET 2005
Thomas Schäfer wrote:
> Hi,
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: wd at denx.de [mailto:wd at denx.de]
[snip]
>>I also don't understand why specific ethernet packet types
>>must be invented. I don't like such non-standard solutions.
>>
>
> The PROT_IP part of the NetReceive function examines the complete IP
> header which is not necessary here. I introduced that packet type to
> achieve a proper separtion from all other packet types. Normally the
> generated packet would remain on the board because PHY or EMAC are
> switched into loopback mode, but i agree that those non-standard packets
> could be problematic when sent to a network.
Just a thought... I have not looked at the code, so I don't know how
practical/reasonable this thought is...
If you sent a "ping" (ICMP echo-request) packet and had your loopback
responder return a "ping" response (ICMP echo-reply) this will be a
standard packet and may be useful elsewhere.
* Ping packet (echo-request) generation and parsing (echo-reply) is
already present in u-boot. If you can reuse this code, you are that
much further ahead.
* If you add a handler for echo-request packets, returning echo-reply
packets, this would potentially be useful for responding to external
computers "ping" requests (currently not implemented because of limited
usefulness and implementation issues).
[snip]
> Best regards,
>
> Thomas Schäfer
gvb
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