Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH v5 26/27] sandbox: eth: Add support for using the 'lo' interface

2015-03-04 Thread Simon Glass
On 3 March 2015 at 19:41, Joe Hershberger joe.hershber...@ni.com wrote: The 'lo' interface on Linux doesn't support thinks like ARP or link-layer access like we use to talk to a normal network interface. A higher-level network API must be used to access localhost. As written, this interface

[U-Boot] [PATCH v5 26/27] sandbox: eth: Add support for using the 'lo' interface

2015-03-03 Thread Joe Hershberger
The 'lo' interface on Linux doesn't support thinks like ARP or link-layer access like we use to talk to a normal network interface. A higher-level network API must be used to access localhost. As written, this interface is limited to not supporting ICMP since the API doesn't allow the socket to