About AT91RM9200's EMAC driver
Yanjun Luo
yjluo at panjet.net
Thu Dec 2 07:44:47 UTC 2004
Hi,
> just a basic question: how is your sniffer attached to the
> network?
> If you are running the sniffer on your "host", which is directly
> involved in the real ethernet communication with your target,
> everything should work.
I'm running sniffer on my PC("host"), and all operations are
between my board and my PC.
> If your "sniffer" is a third machine (not the RTEMS system and
> not the host), usually the network switches will ensure that any
> communication between your RTEMS target and your host will be
> invisible to the sniffer. Switches will send ethernet packets
> only to the network trunks which lead to the system specified in
> the ethernet MAC address. The only exception to this rule are
> broadcast frames.
Yes, you are right.
Thanks,
Yanjun Luo.
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