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13 years ago

Simple Socket Server not responding

Hi, All, I'm a newbie in FPGA and embedded designs (and new to this forum as well). My system has a NIOS-II, TSE MAC, ETX PHY and external SSRAM. I've reached a point where the Simple Socke...
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13 years ago

If the statistics registers on the MAC are increasing then it could be something else than timing. Here are a few things I suggest:[list][*]is the board using an IP address other than 0.0.0.0? Either use a fixed address, or check that it gets a correct one from DHCP. It should print it in the terminal.[*]Use an Ethernet sniffer on the PC you are connecting to the board (Wireshark is a good one) and check that at least the ARP request that the PC sends gets an answer from the board[*]use signaltap probes on the tx and rx stream interfaces between the TSE and the DMAs, and compare the contents with the packets shown in Wireshark.[/list]