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Re: [lwip-members] improved Ethernet ARP on my web site, seeking testers
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Jani Monoses |
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Re: [lwip-members] improved Ethernet ARP on my web site, seeking testers |
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Fri, 29 Nov 2002 11:02:37 +0200 |
Leon
why not put it in CVS?
After all it's there to ease testing and colaboration...
If there's a problem one would just revert to an earlier rev..
And the CVS is considered to be the testbed for new features so if something's
broken
there's an excuse ;)
I don't think others would object...Kieran?
> Hello all,
>
> I have changed the Ethernet ARP implementation with 3 improvements:
>
> - update (i.e. time-stamp) existing entries on foreign ARP traffic.
> - ARP now uses link level output function, so both an ARP reply and a
> queued IP packet can be sent at the same time.
> - ARP is now more persistent on queries (and can do requests more often).
>
> This paves the way to further ARP enhancements, such as multi-packet
> queueing, mobile IP support and non-Ethernet
> ARP.
>
> Everyone interested please test this implementation. It should be a drop-in
> replacement for the current "etharp.c".
> Make sure your link driver fills the netif->linkoutput field correctly.
> (This field is not new, but was seldomly used.)
>
> Please download here: (THIS CODE IS NOT IN THE CVS YET.)
>
> http://www.coredinal.nl/~leon/lwip/
>
> Also, I have fixed the cs8900a driver with regards to bug #1686.
>
> Regards,
>
> Leon Woestenberg.
>
>
>
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