Re: [lwip-users] Lwip ARP problems

[jcr_alr]

I had sort of similar problems with Microblaze on a Spartan3e board as a server 
and a laptop PC as client as client over a crossover cable. I posted the 
following message at that time to the list.

>>
I found using windump that the delta time between the client receiving the last 
ACK in the initial handshake and sending the following write command was very 
short (less that a microsecond?). The Microblaze server missed this write, 
which was resent some 2.5 - 3 seconds later, when the server had not received a 
response to the first write. I added a 30 millisec delay between the client's 
connect function and the following write function - this seems to have cleared 
up the problem in that the server now always responds promptly.
<<

I am still having problems with Microblaze both with lwIP/xilkernel and 
UCOSII/uTCPIP. In my application I want the laptop to retrieve around 2KB data 
from the Microblaze server every 250 msec so that the user can see and respond 
to more or less real time data. The laptop send command may include a very 
small amount of data for the server application. I can't get this setup to work 
unless the PC connect/send/receive/close sequence is sent more than 3 - 4 
seconds apart. Any faster than this, the various timers on both sides seem to 
get confused and the system starts missing data transfers. 

In a similar but non-Microblaze server that used a Coldfire 5272 at 66 Mhz 
transfers every 250 milliseconds were routine.  

John Robbins


Quoting Mumtaz Ahmad <address@hidden>:

> Well atleast LWIP has no such problem .Your description shows that somehow
> lwip is not getting the arp reply .Thats strange to me. You must debug it at
> lwip ethernet driver interface to localize the problem .Put some debug print
> in ethernetif_input function to see wether you are getting any packets of
> type arp or not .Alternatively you can use etharp_query API to directly send
> the arp request to the host you wanna connect with before establishing a
> connection .I hope it will help
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "dannylum" <address@hidden>
> To: <address@hidden>
> Sent: Monday, November 20, 2006 1:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [lwip-users] Lwip ARP problems
> 
> 
> >
> >
> > I actually read on some other forum that this other person had a
> > similar problem and corrected by doing a ping to the FPGA before the
> > FPGA requests for a connection the PC. I applied this same approach
> > and it now works for me.
> >
> > Looking at debug Lwip printouts from he FPGA shows that IP packets are
> > sent from the FPGA but no replies are coming back. However, Ethereal
> > captures on the PC show that FPGA ARP broadcasts are received and
> > replies are generated but immediately after PC replies back with its
> > MAC address, the FPGA sends another broadcast message.
> >
> > As mentioned before, my temporary workaround was to introduce a delay
> > in the FPGA before connecting so just after sockets are all setup, I
> > would use the PC and ping the FPGA. Replies are received on PC side
> > and when the delay/sleep on FPGA elapses, it would connect succesfully
> > because the initial ping requests helped establish the ARP tables on
> > both sides (PC and FPGA).
> >
> > Is this a problem with LWIP Xilinx port??? Although this works around
> > the problem at the moment, I would like to be able to hard code the
> > ARP entry for the PC since I will be using this project for a LAN only
> > so all MACs are known ahead of time. Are there any commands available
> > to achieve this given that I am using the BSD style API sockets.
> >
> > I am reluctant to switch to Raw API in this stage of the game partly
> > because the deadline is fast approaching (approx 1/2 month).
> >
> > Any hints or suggestions are much appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks again guys,
> >
> > Danny
> >
> >
> > dannylum wrote:
> > >
> > > Hey guys,
> > >
> > > I am a first time user of LWIP and using it for a 4th year project. I've
> > > been racking my brain for the past few days trying to figure out what's
> > > going on with LWIP...
> > > Basically I am running on a virtex2 board (xilinx multimedia) with LWIP
> > > and Xilkernel OS. The mode of operation is Sockets API (BSD style)  I
> have
> > > setup everything according to a reference webserver for another board. I
> > > have tested it and proven that using the FPGA as a webserver, we are
> able
> > > to accept connections from a PC via crossover cable.
> > >
> > > The problem I am facing is trying to use FPGA as client and connect to a
> > > server running on the PC.
> > > The code is pretty much identical but instead of using listen and accept
> I
> > > change it to use connect and setup the address stuff to reflect the
> > > server.
> > >
> > > When I run this on the board with Ethereal open, I only see continous
> ARP
> > > packets being sent with the board MAC address requesting for the MAC of
> > > the PC using the PC's IP address. The PC replies and the FPGA again
> sends
> > > another broadcast out. This goes on for about 10 iterations when the
> > > connect procedure I guess times out and exits. The strange part is when
> I
> > > force it to retry again and again, after maybe 10 iterations of CONNECT
> > > timing out, it would connect. Sometimes when I'm lucky this would
> connect
> > > on the first go. Sometimes after 4 cycles of connect timeouts it would
> > > finally connect and I would see TCP packets going in Ethereal.
> > >
> > > I have a feeling this can be a timing issue because it seems like after
> > > the FPGA sends an ARP request, the PC replies but the FPGA doesn't pick
> it
> > > up or something and again requests. After many cycles of this happening,
> > > it would work suddenly suggesting maybe at that correct "moment" the
> FPGA
> > > does see the reply from PC and adds the PC's MAC to its own ARP
> table.....
> > >
> > > Any help is much appreciated...
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance :)
> > >
> > > Danny
> > >
> >
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