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Someone designed that hardware, wrote a driver to configure that
Ethernet chip, and some SPI stuff to send that config to that chip.
Then, someone wrote a driver and probably someone else a port so lwIP
could talk to that chip and work on that hardware.
You should ask them. If you see the frame from the PC on the wire and
the chip does not send it to lwIP, then it is surely their fault.