[ell-i-developers] Status report: Also CoAP works in real hardware. Please test.
- From: Pekka Nikander <pekka.nikander@xxxxxx>
- To: ell-i-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 14:43:52 +0200
> UDP checksums are now off-by-one, and I don't understand why. IP checksum
> code appears to be ok, based on a couple of test cases. UDP checksums are
> based on the IP checksum code. Additionally, the inline assembler
> optimisation that I did does not work, but that can wait for later.
I found the bug. The real bug was (is) in the IP checksum correction, not UDP
checksum computation. I think the IP checksum correction is still broken:
apparently it now works most of the time but fails with certain corner case
values, but I'm not sure.
But I was barking the wrong tree for a few days.
It also appears that Mac OS X *does* accept zero UDP checksum, i.e. the whole
checksum computation code is not needed (yet). But of course it doesn't harm
that it is there, if we just manage to find or generate enough of test cases
for it so that it becomes robust. That is, apparently there is (may be) also
something fishy in the UDP checksum, but that can be fixed later, for now even
CoAP works (with Copper) if UDP checksums sent as zeroes.
The code is now in github in the feature-coap-temp branch. I will clean it up
and merge to feature-coap-wip branch ASAP, then start working towards a merger
into the master. Please expect the merge to take some time; it is better to
start e.g. IDE integration with the feature-coap-wip branch than wait for the
merge.
If you want to test, here is how:
git clone --branch feature-coap-temp https://github.com/Ell-i/Runtime.git
cd Runtime/stm32/library
make
cd ../examples/CoAP
make
stm32flash -w hello_world.hex /dev/...
sudo ifconfig ... 10.0.0.1 alias
ping 10.0.0.2
Then install Mozilla, Copper, and fetch coap://10.0.0.2:5683/hello
In any case, now for the first time the new stack works for real. Work still
remains to be done, of course, but now we can start to think about things like
API, integration of the new Runtime and Arduino IDE, etc. It took some time
longer than I thought, for a number of reasons, but the code is now there, it
is relatively simple, and most importantly it generates very small binaries.
As one of the next steps, I think it would be very good to get some test cases
for the code, both test cases running in the emulator with the pcap interfaces,
but also test cases that run against the real hardware. With such test cases
in place, I would feel much more confident in fiddling with the code in an
attempt to make the binaries even smaller. There are now known inefficiencies
and inelegant things. The inelegant things I'm planning to fix before merging
to master, but the inefficiencies will most probably remain there until we have
some kind of a test suite.
--Pekka
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