Re: [ECOS] TCP/IP and rom startup mode

[Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour at redhat dot com>]

Fano Ramparany wrote:
> 
> I'm using TCP/IP stack in a client application running on eCos (the
> server runs
> on a unix workstation). When running the client in "RAM startup" mode
> (mode for debugging) everything works fine.
> When running it in "ROM startup" mode I've noticed the following
> problems:
> 1- it takes about one minute for the function
> "init_all_network_interfaces" to complete.
>   whereas in "RAM startup" mode although it takes some time for gdb to
> download
>   the client code on the board,  once done,
> "init_all_network_interfaces" completes
>   immediately.

It sounds like maybe BOOTP/DHCP is timing out. Except I don't know why this
would be specific to ROM startup. Perhaps something else in this area of
your configuration changed?

> 2- I can establish a socket connection with the bootp server (the
> argument
>   of the tcpconnection function) only. If I my server runs on another
> unix workstation,
>   my client can't connect to it

Perhaps it needs routing?

Jifl
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