[U-Boot] reg. Ethernet operation

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear "Muralitharan Perumal",

In message <49F5B80B.2090306 at pace.com> you wrote:
> 
> I just wanted to do some testing on ethernet driver in Uboot. I have a 

You may want to look into the Ethenret related POST code in U-Boot.

> small program that will send a binary file through ethernet. But I don't 
> have any clue on how to receive those packets in U-boot. I mean what are 
> the API's to be used. It will be helpful if you could tell me how to do 
> that in U-boot.

Why don't you just perform a TFTP and/or NFS file transfer? You can
then check the file integrity for example using some checksumming - if
you transfer a mkimage created image, this even comes for free.

> Another thing is My target board is connected to eth1 of my host and i 
> am able to ping the host from target saying it's alive. But i am not 
> able to ping the target from the host. Does it mean, the target is 
> restricted to send icmp responses back to host?

Please read the doc. U-Boot does not reply to OCMP packets.

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Please omit this crap when posting to a public mailing list.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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