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Altera_Forum
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14 years ago

NicheStack TCP Client not working with some servers

I've been trying to talk to an Arecont IP camera via a TCP socket client on a BeMicro Nios2 app. The connection to the camera always failed to establish, although it was ok if I substituted t...
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14 years ago

You can always use another camera ;)

But as I said, the MAC already filters packets that don't have the correct MAC destination address in the Ethernet header, so in theory the only ARP packets that should arrive to this function are broadcasts and the replies specifically destined to you. So I don't think you'll have an increase in processed ARP packets if you do this. But I agree you shouldn't have to modify your TCP/IP stack to cope with bad equipment...