Hi again,

I just wanted to let you know this was a firmware problem of the Ethernet
chip - as there is another stack running on this thing, it did utilize ARP
packets, but then discarded them. We were promised an update of FW. Thank
you for your help!

Tomas

2012/8/23 Sylvain Rochet <grada...@gradator.net>

> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 04:50:07PM +0200, Tomás Svec wrote:
> > The problem is, the external chip is a prototype, so this would not help
> > the cause. I am currently in contact with the manufacturer to clarify the
> > ARP packages. But I am sure it does not have an embedded stack, just
> ARPs.
>
> Well, but the ARP table is part of an IP stack (if used over Ethernet),
> and is actually in some implementations part of the IP routing table,
> where /32 routing entries contains Ethernet MAC/output-interface
> tupples.
>
> I don't see how it can work if you do not receive ARP answers, you need
> them in order to fill the MAC destination address in Ethernet frames,
> which is either the final destination if the host in is the same IP
> subnet or either an IP router if not.
>
> Or maybe I misunderstood what you said ? :)
>
> Sylvain
>
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