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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