RE: [lwip-users] ARP during UDP transfers

[Roger Cover]

Thank you for the quick reply. I thought that was the case.

Regards,
Roger 
-----Original Message-----
From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Kieran Mansley
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 8:25 AM
To: Mailing list for lwIP users
Subject: Re: [lwip-users] ARP during UDP transfers

On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 08:14 -0700, Roger Cover wrote:
> Greetings List,
> 
> After researching the source code for a while I have determined that 
> lwIP will queue one UDP packet when the ARP table entry for its 
> destination times out, and then drop subsequent UDP packets until the 
> ARP reply is processed (I have ARP_QUEUEING set to 1). My question is:
> what is the appropriate method for my application to detect that this 
> has happened so it can ensure that no UDP packets are dropped in the 
> stack? I would prefer to have my application suspend its UDP 
> transmissions while the ARP traffic is being resolved.

I don't think there is an easy way to detect this.  UDP is an inherently 
unreliable protocol and provides no API to monitor loss.  ARP status is 
entirely hidden from the application as there is no guarantee that your 
application will be running on an Ethernet network.

You could go some way to avoiding the ARP interrupting your transmissions by 
making sure there is a valid entry for the destination before you try and send 
to it, e.g. by sending a ping and waiting for a response.  You would need to do 
this periodically in the absence of traffic from your application as ARP 
entries will time out.

Kieran


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