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@chapter Using Networking in an RTEMS Application

@section Makefile changes
@subsection Including the required managers
The FreeBSD networking code requires several RTEMS managers
in the application:

@example
MANAGERS = io event semaphore
@end example

@subsection Increasing the size of the heap
The networking tasks allocate a lot of memory.  For most applications
the heap should be at least 256 kbytes.
The amount of memory set aside for the heap can be adjusted by setting
the @code{CFLAGS_LD} definition as shown below:

@example
CFLAGS_LD += -Wl,--defsym -Wl,HeapSize=0x80000
@end example

This sets aside 512 kbytes of memory for the heap.

@section System Configuration

The networking tasks allocate some RTEMS objects.  These
must be accounted for in the application configuration table.  The following
lists the requirements.

@table @b
@item TASKS
One network task plus a receive and transmit task for each device.

@item SEMAPHORES
One network semaphore plus one syslog mutex semaphore if the application uses
openlog/syslog.

@item EVENTS
The network stack uses @code{RTEMS_EVENT_24} and @code{RTEMS_EVENT_25}.
This has no effect on the application configuration, but
application tasks which call the network functions should not
use these events for other purposes.

@end table

@section Initialization
@subsection Additional include files
The source file which declares the network configuration
structures and calls the network initialization function must include

@example
#include <rtems/rtems_bsdnet.h>
@end example

@subsection Network Configuration
The network configuration is specified by declaring
and initializing the @code{rtems_bsdnet_config}
structure.

@example
@group
struct rtems_bsdnet_config @{
  /*
   * This entry points to the head of the ifconfig chain.
   */
  struct rtems_bsdnet_ifconfig *ifconfig;

  /*
   * This entry should be rtems_bsdnet_do_bootp if BOOTP
   * is being used to configure the network, and NULL
   * if BOOTP is not being used.
   */
  void                    (*bootp)(void);

  /*
   * The remaining items can be initialized to 0, in
   * which case the default value will be used.
   */
  rtems_task_priority  network_task_priority;  /* 100        */
  unsigned long        mbuf_bytecount;         /* 64 kbytes  */
  unsigned long        mbuf_cluster_bytecount; /* 128 kbytes */
  char                *hostname;               /* BOOTP      */
  char                *domainname;             /* BOOTP      */
  char                *gateway;                /* BOOTP      */
  char                *log_host;               /* BOOTP      */
  char                *name_server[3];         /* BOOTP      */
  char                *ntp_server[3];          /* BOOTP      */
@};
@end group
@end example

The structure entries are described in the following table.
If your application uses BOOTP/DHCP to obtain network configuration
information and if you are happy with the default values described
below, you need to provide only the first two entries in this structure.

@table @code

@item struct rtems_bsdnet_ifconfig *ifconfig
A pointer to the first configuration structure of the first network
device.  This structure is described in the following section.
You must provide a value for this entry since there is no default value for it.


@item void (*bootp)(void)
This entry should be set to @code{rtems_bsdnet_do_bootp}
if your application will use BOOTP/DHCP
to obtain network configuration information.
It should be set to @code{NULL}
if your application does not use BOOTP/DHCP.


@item int network_task_priority 
The priority at which the network task and network device
receive and transmit tasks will run.
If a value of 0 is specified the tasks will run at priority 100.

@item unsigned long mbuf_bytecount
The number of bytes to allocate from the heap for use as mbufs.  
If a value of 0 is specified, 64 kbytes will be allocated.

@item unsigned long mbuf_cluster_bytecount
The number of bytes to allocate from the heap for use as mbuf clusters.  
If a value of 0 is specified, 128 kbytes will be allocated.

@item char *hostname
The host name of the system.
If this, or any of the following, entries are @code{NULL} the value
may be obtained from a BOOTP/DHCP server.

@item char *domainname
The name of the Internet domain to which the system belongs.

@item char *gateway
The Internet host number of the network gateway machine,
specified in `dotted decimal' (@code{129.128.4.1}) form.

@item char *log_host
The Internet host number of the machine to which @code{syslog} messages
will be sent.

@item char *name_server[3]
The Internet host numbers of up to three machines to be used as
Internet Domain Name Servers.

@item char *ntp_server[3]
The Internet host numbers of up to three machines to be used as
Network Time Protocol (NTP) Servers.

@end table

In addition, the following fields in the @code{rtems_bsdnet_ifconfig}
are of interest.

@table @b

@item int port
The I/O port number (ex: 0x240) on which the external Ethernet
can be accessed.

@item int irno
The interrupt number of the external Ethernet controller.

@item int bpar
The address of the shared memory on the external Ethernet controller.


@end table

@subsection Network device configuration
Network devices are specified and configured by declaring and initializing a
@code{struct rtems_bsdnet_ifconfig} structure for each network device.

The structure entries are described in the following table.  An application
which uses a single network interface, gets network configuration information
from a BOOTP/DHCP server, and uses the default values for all driver
parameters needs to initialize only the first two entries in the
structure.

@table @code
@item char *name
The full name of the network device.  This name consists of the
driver name and the unit number (e.g. @code{"scc1"}).
The @code{bsp.h} include file usually defines RTEMS_BSP_NETWORK_DRIVER_NAME as
the name of the primary (or only) network driver.

@item int (*attach)(struct rtems_bsdnet_ifconfig *conf)
The address of the driver @code{attach} function.   The network 
initialization function calls this function to configure the driver and
attach it to the network stack.
The @code{bsp.h} include file usually defines RTEMS_BSP_NETWORK_DRIVER_ATTACH as
the name of the  attach function of the primary (or only) network driver.

@item struct rtems_bsdnet_ifconfig *next
A pointer to the network device configuration structure for the next network 
interface, or @code{NULL} if this is the configuration structure of the
last network interface.

@item char *ip_address
The Internet address of the device,
specified in `dotted decimal' (@code{129.128.4.2}) form, or @code{NULL}
if the device configuration information is being obtained from a
BOOTP/DHCP server.

@item char *ip_netmask
The Internet inetwork mask of the device,
specified in `dotted decimal' (@code{255.255.255.0}) form, or @code{NULL}
if the device configuration information is being obtained from a
BOOTP/DHCP server.


@item void *hardware_address
The hardware address of the device, or @code{NULL} if the driver is
to obtain the hardware address in some other way (usually  by reading
it from the device or from the bootstrap ROM).

@item int ignore_broadcast
Zero if the device is to accept broadcast packets, non-zero if the device
is to ignore broadcast packets.

@item int mtu
The maximum transmission unit of the device, or zero if the driver
is to choose a default value (typically 1500 for Ethernet devices).

@item int rbuf_count
The number of receive buffers to use, or zero if the driver is to
choose a default value

@item int xbuf_count
The number of transmit buffers to use, or zero if the driver is to
choose a default value
Keep in mind that some network devices may use 4 or more
transmit descriptors for a single transmit buffer.

@end table

A complete network configuration specification can be as simple as the one
shown in the following example.
This configuration uses a single network interface, gets
network configuration information
from a BOOTP/DHCP server, and uses the default values for all driver
parameters.

@example
static struct rtems_bsdnet_ifconfig netdriver_config = @{
        RTEMS_BSP_NETWORK_DRIVER_NAME,
        RTEMS_BSP_NETWORK_DRIVER_ATTACH
@};
struct rtems_bsdnet_config rtems_bsdnet_config = @{
        &netdriver_config,
        rtems_bsdnet_do_bootp,
@};
@end example


@subsection Network initialization
The networking tasks must be started before any network I/O operations
can be performed. This is done by calling: 


@example
rtems_bsdnet_initialize_network ();
@end example

This function is declared in @code{rtems/rtems_bsdnet.h}.
t returns 0 on success and -1 on failure with an error code
in @code{errno}.  It is not possible to undo the effects of
a partial initialization, though, so the function can be
called only once irregardless of the return code.  Consequently,
if the condition for the failure can be corrected, the
system must be reset to permit another network initialization
attempt.



@section Application Programming Interface

The RTEMS network package provides almost a complete set of BSD network
services.  The network functions work like their BSD counterparts
with the following exceptions:

@itemize @bullet
@item A given socket can be read or written by only one task at a time.

@item The @code{select} function only works for file descriptors associated
with sockets.

@item You must call @code{openlog} before calling any of the @code{syslog} functions.

@item @b{Some of the network functions are not thread-safe.}
For example the following functions return a pointer to a static
buffer which remains valid only until the next call:

@table @code
@item gethostbyaddr
@item gethostbyname
@item inet_ntoa
(@code{inet_ntop} is thread-safe, though).
@end table

@item The RTEMS network package gathers statistics.

@item Addition of a mechanism to "tap onto" an interface
and monitor every packet received and transmitted.

@item Addition of @code{SO_SNDWAKEUP} and @code{SO_RCVWAKEUP} socket options.

@end itemize

Some of the new features are discussed in more detail in the following
sections.

@subsection Network Statistics

There are a number of functions to print statistics gathered by
the network stack.
These function are declared in @code{rtems/rtems_bsdnet.h}.

@table @code
@item rtems_bsdnet_show_if_stats
Display statistics gathered by network interfaces.

@item rtems_bsdnet_show_ip_stats
Display IP packet statistics.

@item rtems_bsdnet_show_icmp_stats
Display ICMP packet statistics.

@item rtems_bsdnet_show_tcp_stats
Display TCP packet statistics.

@item rtems_bsdnet_show_udp_stats
Display UDP packet statistics.

@item rtems_bsdnet_show_mbuf_stats
Display mbuf statistics.

@item rtems_bsdnet_show_inet_routes
Display the routing table.

@end table

@subsection Tapping Into an Interface

RTEMS add two new ioctls to the BSD networking code:
SIOCSIFTAP and SIOCGIFTAP.  These may be used to set and get a
@i{tap function}.  The tap function will be called for every
Ethernet packet received by the interface.

These are called like other interface ioctls, such as SIOCSIFADDR.
When setting the tap function with SIOCSIFTAP, set the ifr_tap field
of the ifreq struct to the tap function.  When retrieving the tap
function with SIOCGIFTAP, the current tap function will be returned in
the ifr_tap field.  To stop tapping packets, call SIOCSIFTAP with a
ifr_tap field of 0.

The tap function is called like this:

@example
int tap (struct ifnet *, struct ether_header *, struct mbuf *)
@end example

The tap function should return 1 if the packet was fully handled, in
which case the caller will simply discard the mbuf.  The tap function
should return 0 if the packet should be passed up to the higher
networking layers.

The tap function is called with the network semaphore locked.  It must
not make any calls on the application levels of the networking level
itself.  It is safe to call other non-networking RTEMS functions.

@subsection Socket Options

RTEMS adds two new @code{SOL_SOCKET} level options for @code{setsockopt} and
@code{getsockopt}: @code{SO_SNDWAKEUP} and @code{SO_RCVWAKEUP}.  For both, the
option value should point to a sockwakeup structure.  The sockwakeup
structure has the following fields:

@example
@group
  void    (*sw_pfn) (struct socket *, caddr_t);
  caddr_t sw_arg;
@end group
@end example

These options are used to set a function to be called when there is
data available from the socket (@code{SO_RCVWAKEUP}) and when there is space
available to accept data written to the socket (@code{SO_SNDWAKEUP}).

If @code{setsockopt} is called with the @code{SO_RCVWAKEUP} option, and the
@code{sw_pfn} field is not zero, then when there is data
available to be read from
the socket, the function pointed to by the @code{sw_pfn} field will be
called.  A pointer to the socket structure will be passed as the first
argument to the function.  The @code{sw_arg} field set by the
@code{SO_RCVWAKEUP} call will be passed as the second argument to the function.

If @code{setsockopt} is called with the @code{SO_SNDWAKEUP}
function, and the @code{sw_pfn} field is not zero, then when
there is space available to accept data written to the socket,
the function pointed to by the @code{sw_pfn} field
will be called.  The arguments passed to the function will be as with
@code{SO_SNDWAKEUP}.

When the function is called, the network semaphore will be locked.
The function must be careful not to call any networking functions.  It
is OK to call an RTEMS function; for example, it is OK to send an
RTEMS event.

The purpose of these functions is to permit a more efficient
alternative to the select call when dealing with a large number of
sockets.

@subsection Time Synchronization Using NTP

@example
int rtems_bsdnet_synchronize_ntp (int interval, rtems_task_priority priority);
@end example

If the interval argument is 0 the routine synchronizes the RTEMS time-of-day
clock with the first NTP server in the rtems_bsdnet_ntpserve array and
returns.  The priority argument is ignored.

If the interval argument is greater than 0, the routine also starts an
RTEMS task at the specified priority and polls the NTP server every 
`interval' seconds.  NOTE: This mode of operation has not yet been
implemented.

On successful synchronization of the RTEMS time-of-day clock the routine
returns 0.  If an error occurs a message is printed and the routine returns -1
with an error code in errno.
There is no timeout -- if there is no response from an NTP server the
routine will wait forever.