From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29245 invoked by alias); 1 May 2007 16:23:56 -0000 Received: (qmail 29235 invoked by uid 22791); 1 May 2007 16:23:55 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from anchor-post-31.mail.demon.net (HELO anchor-post-31.mail.demon.net) (194.217.242.89) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 01 May 2007 17:23:50 +0100 Received: from calivar.demon.co.uk ([83.104.54.243] helo=xl5.calivar.com) by anchor-post-31.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.42) id 1Hiv8m-000DQl-3H; Tue, 01 May 2007 16:23:48 +0000 Received: from xl5.calivar.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by xl5.calivar.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57E051386F7; Tue, 1 May 2007 17:23:47 +0100 (BST) To: manesh Cc: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com References: <1177582674.805294.203270@s33g2000prh.googlegroups.com> <20070426133443.GA22158@lunn.ch> <1177738903.263455.239890@l77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> <1177753990.919543.45310@y80g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> <1177926816.728845.292060@c35g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> <1177930381.251419.318920@y5g2000hsa.googlegroups.com> <1178034144.203865.292940@l77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> From: Nick Garnett Original-Sender: nickg@ecoscentric.com Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 16:23:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <1178034144.203865.292940@l77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mailing-List: contact ecos-discuss-help@ecos.sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-discuss-owner@ecos.sourceware.org Subject: Re: [ECOS] Re: Fwd: Sending raw packets on eCos X-SW-Source: 2007-05/txt/msg00002.txt.bz2 manesh writes: > Nick Garnett wrote: > > I'm still interested to know what you are trying to achieve here. > We are trying to implement IPv4LL support on eCos which is used to > dynamically configure the IP address on dhcp failure. This is kept > active by sending ARP requests at regular intervals. I evaluated IPv4LL support myself a while ago. I believe I know how to make it work, although have not done so yet. However, since this was in the context of a commercial contract, I'm not really at liberty to say anything more about it here. You can, of course, contact eCosCentric to discuss a contractual arrangement. See the link in my sig. > > You have already named them above. Those are the only APIs > > available. However, they are closely linked in to the BSD stack and it > > will be hard to use them from application level. > > I received linker errors : undefined reference to eth_drive_write() > when I tried to use that. Even if you could link against the functions, I'm not sure they would be usable from the application. -- Nick Garnett eCos Kernel Architect eCosCentric Limited http://www.eCosCentric.com/ The eCos experts Barnwell House, Barnwell Drive, Cambridge, UK. Tel: +44 1223 245571 Registered in England and Wales: Reg No 4422071. -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss