[lwip-users] Ethernet link state: needed ?

2014-06-12 Thread Sergio R. Caprile
Hi folks, I wrote a driver for the DM9000 Ethernet chip, and nowadays it is missing the link state part. I feel reluctant to add it because I don't really see a need for the stack/application to know the link state, since all the devices I can imagine I'll be developing will be permanently

Re: [lwip-users] Ethernet link state: needed ?

2014-06-12 Thread Sylvain Rochet
Hello Sergio, On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 12:50:54PM -0300, Sergio R. Caprile wrote: My question to the lwIP users: does anyone have the need to know the link state ? Can you share why ? This is obviously a great feature for DHCP, without link state you can end up forever with the previous

Re: [lwip-users] Ethernet link state: needed ?

2014-06-12 Thread Bill Auerbach
error. Bill -Original Message- From: lwip-users-bounces+bauerbach=arrayonline@nongnu.org [mailto:lwip-users-bounces+bauerbach=arrayonline@nongnu.org] On Behalf Of Sergio R. Caprile Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2014 11:51 AM To: lwip-users@nongnu.org Subject: [lwip-users] Ethernet link

Re: [lwip-users] Ethernet link state: needed ?

2014-06-12 Thread Alain Mouette
It may be very important for mantainance and during the instalation. I usualy have one Led with different blinks for different link and connection status and it helps a lot with support Alain Em 12-06-2014 12:50, Sergio R. Caprile escreveu: Hi folks, I wrote a driver for the DM9000 Ethernet