Re: [lwip-users] Broadcast packets breaking my network traffic

[Caglar Akyuz]

Kieran Mansley wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 15:35 +0100, Kieran Mansley wrote:
>> Can you get a small ethereal capture to illustrate this?  The fact that
>> the hub makes a difference is interesting.  I wonder if it is a problem
>> with the boards seeing packets from one of the other boards.  Does it
>> happen in response to all broadcast ARP packets, or only some?  Does it
>> happen in response to other broadcast packets?  
> 
> Is there any traffic (other than broadcast packets and TCP ACKs) going
> back from the PC to the devices?  If not, it could be just that the
> board receiving data is causing them problems (rather than it being
> broadcast packets in particular).  You could try sending a UDP stream at
> the board (which should just drop the packets if there is nothing
> listening to receive them) and see what that does.
> 

No there isn't no other traffic other than packets and ACKS. Do you
think pinging may cause the same effect because I'm pinging the devices
while packets are flying. Some times pinging was ok, sometimes it
crushed the boards.

Caglar