Re: [ECOS] ecos + lwip

[Mandeep Sandhu <mandeepsandhu dot chd at gmail dot com>]

>>> <snip>
>>>
>>> cyg_lwip_sequential_init();
>>>
>>> cyg_lwip_thread_new( "My thread", m_main, (void *)"My thread",
>>> my_stack, 0x1000, 5 );
>>> ...
>>> ...
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>> I'll enable more debugs to see where it's getting stuck.
>>
>> After changing it to 2, it's able to find the interface (et0) with all
>> the right settings.
>
> Well, that does not really make sense. cyg_lwip_sequential_init() will not
> return until the lwip stack is initialized, and initializing ethernet device
> drivers is part of that. This *must* work even when the TCPIP thread has
> lower priority, as long as you start your application thread *after* the
> execution of cyg_lwip_sequential_init(). By starting *after* I mean that you
> also have to make sure that cyg_lwip_sequential_init() and starting your
> applications thread is done in the same thread!
>
> I hope I didn't miss the obvious here, but that's how it should work.

Well, I checked the code again. The netif init is done as part of
tcpip_init_done().
This I see is being called in tcpip_thread(). This function is being
executed in the
tcpip thread's context.

I guess this is why the priority of the threads matters.

Would do you think?

>
>> Now another problem has cropped up! :) Sorry.
>>
>> My app's actually a DHCP server. So it receives DHCP packets with 0.0.0.0
>> as the src IP. However, the stack is dropping them with the following
>> message:
>>
>> ip_input: iphdr->dest 0xffffffff netif->ip_addr 0x101010b (0xffffff,
>> 0x1010b, 0xff000000)
>> ip_input: packet accepted on interface et
>> ip_input: packet source is not valid.
>>
>> I've enabled the following in my config:
>>
>> * Support broadcast filter
>> * Receive support
>>
>> Is anything else needed?
>
> May I ask you to forward this question to the lwip mailing list, I have no
> experience on that subject myself.

Ok. I'll do that.

>
>> Just one more thing:
>>
>> While tracing the path from ?cyg_lwip_sequential_init() to see what
>> all happens, I saw that
>> we end up calling lwip_init() twice!
>>
>> Once in cyg_lwip_sequential_init() and then again in tcpip_init().
>>
>> Why do we do it twice? The only function called between these 2 calls is
>> cyg_semaphore_init().
>>
>> I think we can remove one of these. Or am I missing something?
>
> Well, that's a bug. Thanks for spotting. I wrapped a new release you can
> download from:
>
> http://download.westlicht.ch/lwip-20090902.tar.gz

Thanks!

-mandeep

>
> Simon
>

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