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Re: Multicast support for i82559 Ethernet Driver
- From: Gary Thomas <gthomas at ecoscentric dot com>
- To: Ramanujan Puranam Tandalam <ramanujan dot tandalam at wipro dot com>
- Cc: eCos Discussion <ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: 09 Aug 2002 07:18:00 -0600
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Multicast support for i82559 Ethernet Driver
- References: <000601c23fa1$cf2072d0$2c22a8c0@wipro.com>
On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 06:39, Ramanujan Puranam Tandalam wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We are working with the older version of TCP/IP stack (not the Free BSD
> merge)that has been ported from Open BSD. On this we have ported the
> IPv6 stack also from OpenBSD 3.0.
>
> We have modified the if_i82559.c driver for support Multicast, which was
> absent earlier.
>
> We could trace the path till the Ethernet Driver, the problem is when:
>
> 1. We ping the target using ping6, we do not get any update of
> statistics at the Driver level. Neither there is updation of Rx
> interrrupts, or rx data.
>
> When we ran the FreeBSD stack of eCos, it was working perfectly fine.
>
> Could any one help in giving pointers to the above problem.
So, what's wrong with just using the FreeBSD stack? It's newer and is
expected to become the only supported [BSD] stack for eCos. The fact
that we left the older OpenBSD stack around was just for compatibility.
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