Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Problem in framer_sink

[Eric Blossom]

On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 01:20:20PM -0700, Dan Halperin wrote:
> Johnathan Corgan wrote:
> > The CRC check on the payload is of course dependent on the correct
> > length.  If the length value gets corrupted but both copies are
> > identical, the packet will still get rejected at the CRC check stage.
> >
> > Except in your case, where the state machine hangs up with a payload
> > length of zero.  Good catch. The length field in the received packet
> > should always be at least four bytes, as that is the length of the CRC
> > field in use, so the check will get added to the code for payload_len < 4.
> Is the CRC actually required? In the version of the code I'm using on
> the lab machines (which is from early January), the framer_sink only
> uses the length field to form the packet and the CRC is checked later.
> We actually do the CRC after doing some ECC on the bits themselves.
> 
> -Dan

Dan,

r4739 implements a new fix for the fr_framer_sink_1 problem.
Can you please build it and test?

Thanks,
Eric