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Hello,
I have implemented a web server using RL-ARM. The problem I am trying to resolve is that, occasionally, the web server will 'hang' for about two seconds while in the middle of serving a HTTP response to the browser. This does not happen very frequently; 95% of the time, complete pages are served almost instantly.
Using Wireshark, I see that what's happening is that TCPNET is sometimes sending out a TCP packet (containing HTTP data) that has an incorrect checksum. Wireshark actually marks the packet as "Continuation or non-HTTP traffic", and the 'bad checksum' flag is 'true'.
About two seconds after the bad packet is issued, I can see that TCPNET is retransmits the packet. Wireshark marks it as "[TCP Retransmission]". Inspection of this retransmitted packet shows that it contains exactly the same HTTP data as the bad packet, except this time the packet is usually a little longer (perhaps just several bytes, or sometimes tens of bytes longer) and has a good checksum value.
So what's happening is that the browser ignores the packet with the bad checksum, and the 'hang' is when it awaits the retransmitted packet.
The retransmitted packet is almost always longer. It's as if the bad packet, with the wrong checksum, has somehow become slightly truncated.
This is the only issue I am experiencing; everything else seems to be running absolutely fine with our web server. It has been going through very extensive testing and I've never seen anything else that would point to data corruption.
The platform is the ST ARM9. The software in use is:
uVision V4.00 MDK-ARM V4.00 RL-ARM V4.00
The problem has been present ever since we started developing using earlier V3.x versions of uVision, MDK and RLARM. This isn't something that has been introduced with any particular release of Keil software.
In our application there are three tasks running: Main application (middle priority), a serial communications task (highest priority), and web server task. The web server is set to lowest priority. As a test, I have tried making it the highest priority task but this didn't eliminate the checksum errors. At the moment, I am in the process of disabling as much of the main application as I can, along with interrupts, etc. to see if I can determine what, if anything, in our code could be upsetting TCPNET.
In the meantime I am just curious as to whether anyone has experienced anything similar to this. It's something that I'm finding very tricky to debug.
Thanks,
Trevor.
Please try the last driver that you have received from support and change the number of TX buffers in the header file:
#define NUM_TX_BUF 3
It seems that this solves the problem.
I've been trying my 'test' project with this fix and so far have seen no errors (after more than 1.5 million packets).
It looks promising.
I'm now going to put it into my 'live' project and set up a test to run over the weekend.
Unfortunately, the tests on my 'live' project were not successfull; i.e., I still see the error.
I believe I also have this problem. Could I also have a copy of the updated driver?
Stuart.
Hi Stuart,
If you send an email to KeilSupportIntl (at) arm (dot) com and give this thread as a reference I expect they'll send it to you quite quickly.
Trev
Keil are now looking into this problem further.
I found that their 'updated' driver would also fail.
It looks like the link I gave for my modified version is still alive:
www.sendspace.com/.../2oq3q5
You may want to give that a try.
One problem they're having in chasing this issue is reliably reproducing it. I had a small-ish test program that would show it up, but when I used Keils update it worked - Only to then fail in my 'real' project :(
As Trevor suggests, it is worth you contacting Keil support and asking for their update. I suspect they might be interested in your results.
Just checked Mr Sausage's code and yes it fixes my problem. So I will stick with that for now, and also ask Keil for the fix and see if that works for me.
While it didn't stop my program from working it was annoying getting silly pauses everywhere!
Thanks!
Ok I have now checked Keil's fixed driver, and I still have the problem.
So for the moment I will stick with Mr Sausage's code which works.
Thanks.
One day someone is going to ask why there's a comment saying "thanks to Silly Sausage for this bit" in our code.
:-)
Maybe they will send you to therapy for your obvious eating disorder :)
It was one of them things I was laughing about as I was writing it!