23 Mar
2015
23 Mar
'15
5:08 p.m.
On 22 March 2015 at 16:09, Joe Hershberger joe.hershberger@ni.com wrote:
The 'lo' interface on Linux doesn't support thinks like ARP or link-layer access like we use to talk to a normal network interface. A higher-level network API must be used to access localhost.
As written, this interface is limited to not supporting ICMP since the API doesn't allow the socket to be opened for all IP traffic and be able to receive at the same time. UDP is far more useful to test with, so it was selected over ICMP. Ping won't work, but things like TFTP should work.
Signed-off-by: Joe Hershberger joe.hershberger@ni.com Reviewed-by: Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org
Changes in v7: None
Applied to u-boot-dm/next, thanks!