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Honored ContributorYes, I am familiar with Wireshark. The fact that you see no activity from the FPGA side can mean one of two things: either the board is receiving packets fine but is having a problem transmitting, or the board is having trouble receiving packets so it doesn't know it's supposed to transmit anything.
Assuming transmit is working fine, then if you were using DHCP you would have seen at least a handful of packets come out of the board toward the PC every time you boot it. But with a static IP, you're waiting for the FPGA to receive a packet from the PC that it feels it needs to respond to (the query you are seeing in your Wireshark trace, for example). At this point, you don't have enough information to say either way what is going on. This is where SignalTap might come in. It is at a much lower level of detail than Wireshark, but there is no wireshark equivalent within NIOS. Regarding changing the MAC address of the FPGA in the PC side, no you don't have to do that (part of TCP/IP includes automatically figuring that information out). When you see that the PC has assigned 00's, that is simply placeholder meaning the PC hasn't gotten an answer yet.
