[ECOS] ping reply not synchronized with the ping request

[Jürgen Lambrecht]

Solved.
Was a (last?) bug in if_at91.c, cf. 
http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss/2008-06/msg00013.html.
I had forgotten to call '_eth_drv_tx_done' and set 'priv->tx_busy = 
false' in case of a TX error.
In attach again the patch.

Test result:
500 pings worked, no loss.
For each ping, "AT91_ETH: Tx BEX" is printed (buffers exhausted in 
mid-frame). I think that is because the last DMA runs out of data but it 
is ok because there is no data anymore - maybe the length of the DMA is 
wrong?

Kind regards,
Juergen

Lambrecht Jürgen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Now I've got the Ethernet driver running for my AT91SAM9260-EK based board (if_at91.c - see previous posts of me), I have some strange behavior with the FreeBSD TCP/IP stack:
>
> -> at startup a gratuitous ARP is sent out
> <- when a ARP request arrives
> -> again a gratuitous ARP is sent out
> <- then the ICMP ping request 1 arrives
> -> a normal ARP reply is sent
> <- ping request 2
> -> ping reply 1
> <- ping request 3
> ...
> When I stop the ping, and start again after clearing the arp cache, the last
> "lost" ping reply is sent as response to the first ARP request.
>
> It is like the TX or RX part holds on to 1 packet, and only releases it when a
> new packet arrives.
>
> Why again a gratuitous ARP - is the driver initialized again? 
> Or does the driver normally sends out 2 gratuitous ARPs at startup?
>
> Kind regards,
> Jürgen
>
>   

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