Re: [lwip-users] windows 7, IPv6, and WiFi

[Zach Smith]

Thank you for the response.  Unfortunately we have tried these things and still 
can't get it to work.

Interestingly, we can't get communication with our setup like this:
[Win7 PC] --- (wired Ethernet) --- (Intranet) ---(wired Ethernet) --- [wireless 
router] --- (WiFi) --- [Embedded device]

But if we try a setup like this then it works:
[Win7 PC] --- (WiFi) --- [Wireless Router] --- (Embedded device]

-Zach


-----Original Message-----
From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Ivan Delamer
Sent: Sunday, July 07, 2013 2:52 PM
To: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [lwip-users] windows 7, IPv6, and WiFi

Hi Zach,

I have been able to use LwIP with IPv6, Windows 7, and Wifi, so I don't think 
it is specific to those technologies.

I believe Windows 7 has much higher integration of IPv6 (previous versions were 
more like patches). I think one of the changes is that there are many more 
interfaces, and this can complicate things if you are using link-local 
addresses.

So my advice is:
- If you are using link-local addresses, make sure your PC app is specifying 
the correct interface
- Try using a specific prefix for your addresses such as aaaa:: and use iproute 
to send all those packets through the interface (Ethernet, Wifi) to which the 
lwip device is connected.

Lastly, you can try temporarily disabling the firewall.

Again, I have used this in many Win7 installations, usually there is a 
configuration issue that can be solved with iproute.

Cheers
Ivan


> Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2013 19:54:28 +0000
> From: Zach Smith <address@hidden>
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> Subject: [lwip-users] windows 7, IPv6, and WiFi
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> I am experiencing a problem that has me very confused and I wonder if
> anybody has seen this or could suggest an idea.
>
> My embedded device runs lwip and has been working great with IPv4.
> It uses a WiFi module to handle raw Ethernet packets that I send it
> and I get raw Ethernet from it. I updated to latest lwip to add IPv6
> support.  I was able to add it and it seemed to work great.  That is,
> with my windows XP machine (IP6 enabled) I could communicate fine with
> the IP6 embedded device.  But someone else in my company then tried it
> with their Windows 7 machine and couldn't connect.  Since then we have
> tried many different machines - XP, Vista, Win7.  Only the Windows 7
> machines have problems.
>
> A strange thing is that they can ping the embedded device fine but
> can't open a TCP connection.  I have done many Wireshark captures and
> can see that the Win7 PC sends a SYN and the embedded device responds
> with a SYN,ACK. But then the PC acts as though it never received the
> SYN,ACK because it just times out and sends the SYN again.  I have
> compared Wireshark captures from PCs that are able to connect and PCs
> that are not able to connect and those SYN and SYN,ACK packets look
> identical except for IP and MAC addresses.
>
> I thought maybe it's the WiFi routers but they are just bridged to
> pass everything through and it does seem that they are routing the
> packets OK as the PC wireshark logs show - the SYN,ACK from the
> embedded device gets to the PC but the PC never responds with the ACK.
>
> Is there some special thing to configure windows 7 to work with IP6 or
> something I am missing? Any Ideas??


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