From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9375 invoked by alias); 7 Jun 2004 16:37:36 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ecos-maintainers-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-maintainers-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 9359 invoked from network); 7 Jun 2004 16:37:35 -0000 Message-ID: <40C499CE.1070707@eCosCentric.com> Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 16:37:00 -0000 From: Jonathan Larmour User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-gb, en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Paul King Cc: ecos-maintainers@ecos.sourceware.org Subject: Re: PPP Stack References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-06/txt/msg00011.txt.bz2 John Paul King wrote: > (BTW, sorry if I've sent this repeatedly--having problems w/ Ximian > Evolution) > > I'm not sure if anyone else had this problem, but I thought that I would > pass along the information. I was using the eCos PPP stack in conjunction > with an EB40A, and I was able to establish a link w/ a Linux peer flawlessly > (btw, thanks for the cool stack--I was able to create a program in Linux and > have it immediately work in eCos!); however, when trying to connect to > another device (in particular, a Kyocera 1xRTT module), a link never > occurred (i.e., the Kyocera module never even tried to respond to PPP > packets sent). Further inspection showed that the eCos stack did not send > out an initial "flag sequence", and I assume the module timed out before the > next frame was sent (i.e., wasn't able the use the previous ending "flag > sequence" as the beginning "flag sequence" of the new frame). I modified > the code in "pppasyncstart" such that the "flag sequence (0x7e)" is sent > before every frame, and this seemed to worked great for my application; > however, I'm not sure this would be best for all users since a "NULL frame" > would possibly have to be digested by all possible peers. Anyhow, let me > know if this is the right way to go. Thanks for the great operating system. I don't know PPP/LCP off the top of my head, but I suggest you have a look at the relevant RFCs as that's the only way to know what's correct and allowed. If you find something relevant in there, feel free to post something in our bugzilla database (see the website). Jifl -- eCosCentric http://www.eCosCentric.com/ The eCos and RedBoot experts --["No sense being pessimistic, it wouldn't work anyway"]-- Opinions==mine