[ixp1200] ENP2505 Example Issues

Yong Liu yongliu at ee.tamu.edu
Tue Apr 22 02:32:05 EDT 2003


Hi, Cyrus

Have you solved the problems?
I have similar question.
How can we run the examples in IXP SDK on ENP-2505?

Thanks!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cyrus Hall" <hallcp at cs.colorado.edu>
To: <ixp1200 at CS.Princeton.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 4:22 PM
Subject: Re: [ixp1200] ENP2505 Example Issues


> Thanks for the pointers.  Here is what I've tracked it down to.  When
> the octmac kernel modules is loaded (octmac.o) the packet spew begins.
> Inserting this module manually has the same result as running the ACE
> load script.  I've tried recompiling the driver and made sure that it
> was truly compiled for the ARM.  After a reboot the module seems in
> insert, repeatably, just fine.  After one runs the ./ixstart script the
> old behavior returns.  I tried running through the ./ixstart script by
> hand several times and was unable to recreate the problem or start the
> ACEs.
>
> Has anyone run into this problem or similar ones in the past?  I'm going
> to try using the kernel modules located in /lib/modules on the card next
> and see if maybe the versions in /opt/ixasdk/bin/arm-be are bad.
>
> Thanks for the comments,
> Cyrus Hall
> University of Colorado
> Software Engineering Research Laboratory
>
> On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 18:51, Abhijeet Joglekar wrote:
> > Cyrus,
> >
> > > board will proceed to spit out malformed Ethernet packets (each packet
> > > identical) as fast as the interface will allow.  This is with the
simple
> > > packet counting example.
> >
> > Can you expand a little more on the problem? The Count example should
> > only recv. packets, count and then discard them. Which interface
> > is it spitting packets out on?
> >
> > > Is there a bare bones MicroACE, such as the counting example, that
> > > actually works on the ENP2505?
> >
> > I have tried Count, l2bridge and l3fwdr and they work fine. There are
not
> > many board dependent commands in the ixsys.config file. Just comment
> > out "interface" commands for all other ports except for 0,1,2,3.
> > Similarly, comment out commands for other ports from the
> > route.config-sys-l3fwdr file or bridge.config-sys-l2bridge file.
> >
> > And try with "mode = 0".
> >
> > Also, check out the archives of this list, there was some discussion
> > earlier on this list about running ACE samples on the ENP-2505.
> >
> > -- abhijeet
> >
> >
>




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