[ECOS] A clue....

Andrew Lunn andrew@lunn.ch
Wed Feb 15 12:37:00 GMT 2006


On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 04:38:22AM -0800, Chuck McManis wrote:
> There is some debugging output below. But what I figured out is that my 
> receive code isn't receiving *ALL* packets, it is only receiving 
> *BROADCAST* packets. So sending a broadcast ARP, it sees, a specific reply, 
> it doesn't see.
> 
> Checked the Receiver Control Register on the ethernet chip and it is set to 
> receive broadcast, multicast, and short packets. (there doesn't seem to be 
> a bit for accepting packets addressed to it)

Does it known its own MAC address? Where does it get it from? When it
sends out the ARP request what does it use for its own address?

        Andrew

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