[ethmac] Hardware Ping

[Nick Lindberg <ndlindberg@wisc.edu>]

Hello All,

I was wondering if anybody could help me out with an automatic hardware 
pinger.  We have the core and everything compiled and it works, and I just 
want to write a hardware standalone module to download into my FPGA to 
respond to pings so we can see this thing work, which I don't think would 
be too bad.  I just need to check to see if it's a ping request, then send 
a ping acknowledge back to the appropriate address... all that can easily 
be done in hardware... however, do I need to deal with ARP and all of that 
to let the network know that I'm there, or can I just hook up a static IP 
address to this things <we have one of those> and hook it up and ping it?

Thanks,
Nick


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