Debugger General Information

 

 

Physical Layer Manager Ethernet Driver

 

 

This driver manages/surrounds the Ethernet controller chip or board.

 

 

Management is in the scope of the reception of packets, the transmission of

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packets, receive buffer flushing, and interface initialization.

 

 

 

This module ensures that the packaging and unpackaging of Ethernet packets is done correctly in the Boot PROM.

UDP/IP Protocol Modules

The Internet Protocol (IP) is designed for use in interconnected systems of packet-switched computer communication networks. The Internet protocol provides for transmitting of blocks of data called datagrams (hence User Datagram Protocol, or UDP) from sources to destinations, where sources and destinations are hosts identified by fixed length addresses.

The UDP/IP protocols are necessary for the TFTP and BOOTP protocols, TFTP and BOOTP require a UDP/IP connection.

RARP/ARP Protocol Modules

The Reverse Address Resolution Protocol (RARP) basically consists of an identity-less node broadcasting a “whoami” packet onto the Ethernet, and waiting for an answer. The RARP server fills an Ethernet reply packet up with the target's Internet Address and sends it.

The Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) basically provides a method of converting protocol addresses (e.g., IP addresses) to local area network addresses (e.g., Ethernet addresses). The RARP protocol module supports systems which do not support the BOOTP protocol (next paragraph).

BOOTP Protocol Module

The Bootstrap Protocol (BOOTP) basically allows a diskless client machine to discover its own IP address, the address of a server host, and the name of a file to be loaded into memory and executed.

TFTP Protocol Module

The Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) is a simple protocol to transfer files. It is implemented on top of the Internet User Datagram Protocol (UDP or Datagram) so it may be used to move files between machines on different networks implementing UDP. The only thing it can do is read and write files from/to a remote server.

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Motorola MVME197LE manual Physical Layer Manager Ethernet Driver, UDP/IP Protocol Modules, RARP/ARP Protocol Modules