Re: [lwip-users] using loopback

[Ben Bobbitt]

Yes, It would be more accurate to say that I need to check that a thread is 
running. It sounds like there is no current capability to use the loopback to 
do that. The thread that I want to monitor this way will be blocked on a 
netconn read call using a netif that is not a loopif type. 

Ben Bobbitt
ESR


On Jun 6, 2008, at 9:46 AM, "address@hidden" <address@hidden> wrote:

I don't think I fully understand what you want to achieve: do you want to check 
if your an ethernet interface is up or if a thread is running? If you want to 
check the ethernet interface, loopif.c won't help you much: it is designed to 
be an additional lwip netif that passes packets to/from 127.0.0.1. However, 
there is some work going on to get loopif functionality into _all_ netifs, but 
that is not supported in 1.3.0 and it might take a while until it is finished 
in CVS.

Simon

Ben Bobbitt schrieb:

I’m trying to use a loopback mechanism on a periodic basis as a way of checking 
that an interface is still up and running. 

It appears that loopback capability is included in the loopif.c module with the 
LWIP_HAVE_LOOPIF option in opt.h set... however,  I’m not clear on how one 
would actually use that.  Does the netif that you want to periodically test 
with a loopback message have to be initialized under a new model?   

I’m using the netconn api, and I simply want to have another thread 
periodically send a ping to the port that another thread is listening to – but 
since it’s a blocking read, I can’t really test that the thread is still up 
unless he receives data.  Hopefully that makes sense. 

Thanks.



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