On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 03:45:09PM +0530, Mandeep Sandhu wrote: > Whats this other address that the test uses??? 10.1.1.33?
IMO, that bogus IP just to demo that the dest in unreachable. So, test passed okay. I think you hit ^C too early in dhclient window :-) > One more thing...can you verify my understanding of this works > with ecos (i.e the dhcp/ping test) > > * The ecos app sends packets via ecos-hal > * ecos hal in-turn uses the ecossynth/rawether process to send the > packet out. > * The rawether process essentially opens /dev/tap0 (or maybe /dev/net/tun > with the correct ioctl) and writes the ether frame to it. > * The Linux kernel rx's the frame over tap0 interface > * The Linux nw stack responds to the packet (DHCP/ICMP) and sends out > the response over tap0. > * When the Linux kernel writes the packet to tap0, the same data becomes > available on /dev/tap0 (or /dev/net/tun), which is picked up by rawether and > passed to the ecos process. > > Does this summarize the process correctly? Perhaps, something likes this, but, I'm not expert here :-( Sergei -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss
