[lwip-users] How can I make the lwIP stack communicate with a new Ethern
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[lwip-users] How can I make the lwIP stack communicate with a new Ethernet MAC?
Date:
Tue, 7 Feb 2006 01:18:20 -0800 (PST)
Hello,
I am using a development board from Altera with a stratixII_2s60 FPGA on it.
A Nios II processor system and the MicroC/OS II are running on it.
My boss has written a virtual Ethernet MAC, called rtmac_0, that can be manipulated through a register-interface like a normal Ethernet MAC and basically consists of a single FIFO. A packet can be send to it and has to be received directly afterwards.
I wrote an Ethernet device driver for this virtual MAC (i.e. rtmac_0), based on the altera_avalon_lan91c111 and a simple application programm that sends a packet to the lwIP stack and receives it directly afterwards.
To tell the lwIP stack to use the virtual MAC (i.e. rtmac_0) instead of the lan91c111 I changed the following line in lwipopts.h:
before: #define LWIP_DEFAULT_DEV "/dev/"LWIP_DEFAULT_IF
after: #define LWIP_DEFAULT_DEV "/dev/rtmac_0"
I did this because the rtmac_0 was not selectable in the System Properties GUI in the Nios IDE and the Nios II Software Developer's Handbook mentioned in chapter 9 that the GUI changes the settings in the lwipopts.h File.
Although the netconn_send(conn) Funktion of the lwIP stack executes without an error, the device driver for the rtmac_0 is not called, nor is the device driver for the lan91c111.