On Nov 9, 2007 11:18 PM, Frédéric BERNON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

>  Hi Thomas,
>
> I will suppose you use the last CVS head.
>
Close, it's a week or so old.


> The difference between your both tests is that in the first one, ARP is
> used to found your target MAC/IP entry, but in the second one, ARP is used
> to found your gateway entry (so, if your gateway exists, but not your
> target, ARP will first find your gateway MAX address, and next, lwIP send a
> packet to (gateway MAC/target IP).
>
> The assertion you give us is in etharp_query, if mem_malloc(MEMP_ARP_QUEUE)
> failed when ARP_QUEUEING=1. If you remove the assert, you got a crash. So,
> we need to change code to be able to work even if we don't have any
> MEMP_ARP_QUEUE.
>
> I will take a look
>

Thanks for the explanation Frédéric, as I don't have familiarity with that
portion of the code and caught me entirely off guard.  This is fairly
high-priority for me at the moment, so I will see if I can roll a patch next
week, unless you get to it first, of course :)









 ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Thomas Taranowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> *To:* Mailing list for lwIP users <[email protected]>
> *Sent:* Friday, November 09, 2007 11:48 PM
> *Subject:* [lwip-users] arp failure results in newEntry != NULL assertion
>
> I'm able to readily reproduce the following, and am wondering if other
> folks have seen similar behavior, or if it's just a problem with my port.
>
> On my target running lwIP, I while(1) sendto() to a non-existent target on
> the ***LOCAL*** subnet.
> Result: newEntry!=NULL assertion from etharp.c.  lwIP failed to allocate a
> memp so that it could cache the outgoing packet.  Shouldn't really be an
> assertion, as there needs to be error handling code in place for that, but
> that's another issue.
>
> On my target running lwIP, I while(1) sendto() to a non-existent target on
> a ***REMOTE*** subnet.
> Result: code works fine
>
>
>
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