ip_hdr._ttl_proto is 16 bits long, but this includes both the
TTL and the protocol bits.
Jared
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Ikhwan Ismail
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 23:00
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Subject: [lwip-users] The purpose of structure packing
Hi,
I swear i searched the mailing list before coming up with this question, and
none really explains the purpose of structure packing.
My question is what is the purpose of structure packing. I at first
thought lwip requires it to spare memory and
keep alignment problem away, and since I dont have much of those problem I
removed all of my structure packing macros.
I am working with lwip 1.2.0.
I was checking the pbufs of the DHCP discovery packet since wireshark couldnt
pickup any of the packages i transmitted.
The driver was working since the ethernet controller signals that the buffer
was sent. Then I noticed that e.g in RFC that the IP header
member e.g TTL should be 8 bits long while in struct ip_hdr it is 16 bits long,
and in the pbufs prior to transmission it was also 16 bits long.
Hence I assumed which is why wireshark didnt pick the package up or it was
filtered by the end point ethernet controller.
I guess that this is due to the fact I removed structure packing ? Anyone with
example done with a Windriver compiler ?
Thanks a lot for your replies.
Greetings
M Ikhwan
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