Re: RE : RE : RE : [lwip-users] Device name

[Nicolas Pinault]

Hi,
> Hi,
>
> I  have commited yesterday in "contrib/apps/netbios" a sample which do 
> something like you want:
>
> - there is a netbios_init function to call (like others samples)
> - the netbios_recv callback check if the incoming packet is a name request for 
> us
> - the name is hardcoded "NETBIOSLWIPDEV"
> - so, you could do "ping NETBIOSLWIPDEV" (on a LAN, on a Windows station)
>
> I have tested it with msvc6 port, and it's working. But lot of little things 
> have to be done :
>
> - enable to overwrite NETBIOSLWIPDEV in the lwipopts.h( #ifndef/#endif)
> - declare and use some defines to replace constants
> - declare a whole netbios packet (hdr+"name" part)
> - improve the frame parsing
> - some comments and some coding style, rename some functions and variables...
>
> Any feedback is welcome, even if I can't work on it this weekend...
>   
This is very interesting.
In my case, the name is determined at startup.
I have not time to work on it now.
I hope I'll have time next week.

Thank you very much for your support.


Nicolas