Allow packet transmission to be deferred pending successful ARP
resolution. This avoids the time spent waiting for a higher-level
protocol (e.g. TCP or TFTP) to attempt retransmission.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[ipv4] Use broadcast link-layer address for all broadcast IPv4 addresses
When transmitting, use the broadcast link-layer address for any
broadcast address (e.g. 192.168.0.255), not just INADDR_BROADCAST
(255.255.255.255).
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Explicitly discard any unicast packets for addresses that we do not
control, to avoid unexpected behaviour when operating in promiscuous
mode (which is now the default, thanks to FCoE).
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[netdevice] Allow link layer to report broadcast/multicast packets via pull()
Allow the link layer to directly report whether or not a packet is
multicast or broadcast at the time of calling pull(), rather than
relying on heuristics to determine this at a later stage.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
At the time of attempting ARP resolution, we already know the
transmitting network device. We can therefore record ARP errors using
netdev_tx_err() so that they show up in the output of "ifstat".
Inspired-by: Dominik Russenberger <dominik.russenberger@terreactive.ch>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[ipv4] Include network device metadata in packet traces
(Ab)use the "ident" field in transmitted IPv4 packets to convey
metadata about the network device. In particular:
bits 0-3 represent the low bits of the "RX" good packet counter
bits 4-7 represent the low bits of the "RXE" bad packet counter
bits 8-15 represent the transmitted packet sequence number
This allows some relevant information about the internal state of the
network device to be read out from a packet trace from a non-debug
build of iPXE. In particular, it allows a packet trace containing
packets transmitted by iPXE to indicate whether or not any packets
have been received by iPXE.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Improve the appearance of the "config" user interface by ensuring that
settings appear in some kind of logical order.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[netdevice] Pass both link-layer addresses in net_tx() and net_rx()
FCoE requires the use of fabric-provided MAC addresses, which breaks
the assumption that the net device's MAC address is implicitly the
source address for net_tx() and the (unicast) destination address for
net_rx().
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[retry] Hold reference while timer is running and during expiry callback
Guarantee that a retry timer cannot go out of scope while the timer is
running, and provide a guarantee to the expiry callback that the timer
will remain in scope during the entire callback (similar to the
guarantee provided to interface methods).
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[build] Fix misaligned table entries when using gcc 4.5
Declarations without the accompanying __table_entry cause misalignment
of the table entries when using gcc 4.5. Fix by adding the
appropriate __table_entry macro or (where possible) by removing
unnecessary forward declarations.
Signed-off-by: Piotr Jaroszyński <p.jaroszynski@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Standardise on using timer_init() to initialise an embedded retry
timer, to match the coding style used by other embedded objects.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Access to the gpxe.org and etherboot.org domains and associated
resources has been revoked by the registrant of the domain. Work
around this problem by renaming project from gPXE to iPXE, and
updating URLs to match.
Also update README, LOG and COPYRIGHTS to remove obsolete information.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[ipv4] Ignore non-open net devices when performing routing
We do not discard routing table entries when closing an interface. It
is plausible that multiple interfaces may be on the same physical
network; if so, then we may end up in a situation whereby outbound
packets attempt to route via a closed interface.
Fix by ignoring non-open net devices in ipv4_route().
ipv4.c calculates the default subnet mask before calling
fetch_ipv4_setting() to retrieve the configured subnet mask (if any).
However, as of commit 612f4e7 "[settings] Avoid returning
uninitialised data on error in fetch_xxx_setting()",
fetch_ipv4_setting() will zero the IP address if the setting does not
exist, rather than leaving it unaltered.
Fix by fetching the setting first and calculating the default subnet
mask only if necessary.
[ipv4] Use a zero address to indicate "no gateway", rather than INADDR_NONE
ipv4.c uses a gateway address of INADDR_NONE to represent "no
gateway". It initialises the gateway address to INADDR_NONE before
calling fetch_ipv4_setting() to retrieve the configured gateway
address (if any).
However, as of commit 612f4e7 "[settings] Avoid returning
uninitialised data on error in fetch_xxx_setting()",
fetch_ipv4_setting() will zero the IP address if the setting does not
exist, rather than leaving it unaltered.
Fix by using a zero IP address to indicate "no gateway", so that a
non-existent gateway address setting will be treated as such.
[netdevice] Make ll_broadcast per-netdevice rather than per-ll_protocol
IPoIB has a link-layer broadcast address that varies according to the
partition key. We currently go through several contortions to pretend
that the link-layer address is a fixed constant; by making the
broadcast address a property of the network device rather than the
link-layer protocol it will be possible to simplify IPoIB's broadcast
handling.
[tcpip] Allow for transmission to multicast IPv4 addresses
When sending to a multicast address, it may be necessary to specify
the source address explicitly, since the multicast destination address
does not provide enough information to deduce the source address via
the miniroute table.
Allow the source address specified via the data-xfer metadata to be
passed down through the TCP/IP stack to the IPv4 layer, which can use
it as a default source address.
[netdevice] Split multicast hashing out into an mc_hash method
Multicast hashing is an ugly overlap between network and link layers.
EFI requires us to provide access to this functionality, so move it
out of ipv4.c and expose it as a method of the link layer.
From: Viswanath Krishnamurthy <viswa.krish@gmail.com>
The current ipv4 incorrectly checks the IP address for multicast address.
This causes valid IPv4 unicast address to be trated as multicast address
For e.g if the PXE/tftp server IP address is 192.168.4.XXX where XXX is
224 or greater, it gets treated as multicast address and a ethernet
multicast address is sent out on the wire causing timeouts
[Settings] Remove assumption that all settings have DHCP tag values
Allow for settings to be described by something other than a DHCP option
tag if desirable. Currently used only for the MAC address setting.
Separate out fake DHCP packet creation code from dhcp.c to fakedhcp.c.
Remove notion of settings from dhcppkt.c.
Rationalise dhcp.c to use settings API only for final registration of the
DHCP options, rather than using {store,fetch}_setting throughout.
Michael Brown