Serial Line IP (SLIP) protocol
[The uIP TCP/IP stack]

The SLIP protocol is a very simple way to transmit IP packets over a serial line. More...

Files
file	slipdev.c
	SLIP protocol implementation.
file	slipdev.h
	SLIP header file.
Functions
u8_t	slipdev_send (void)
	Send the packet in the uip_buf and uip_appdata buffers using the SLIP protocol.
u16_t	slipdev_poll (void)
	Poll the SLIP device for an available packet.
void	slipdev_init (void)
	Initialize the SLIP module.
void	slipdev_char_put (u8_t c)
	Put a character on the serial device.
u8_t	slipdev_char_poll (u8_t *c)
	Poll the serial device for a character.

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Detailed Description

The SLIP protocol is a very simple way to transmit IP packets over a serial line.

It does not provide any framing or error control, and is therefore not very widely used today.

This SLIP implementation requires two functions for accessing the serial device: slipdev_char_poll() and slipdev_char_put(). These must be implemented specifically for the system on which the SLIP protocol is to be run.

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Function Documentation

u8_t slipdev_char_poll

(

u8_t *

c

)

Poll the serial device for a character.

This function is used by the SLIP implementation to poll the serial device for a character. It must be implemented specifically for the system on which the SLIP implementation is to be run.

The function should return immediately regardless if a character is available or not. If a character is available it should be placed at the memory location pointed to by the pointer supplied by the argument c.

Parameters:

c

A pointer to a byte that is filled in by the function with the received character, if available.

Return values:

	0	If no character is available.
	Non-zero	If a character is available.

void slipdev_char_put

(

u8_t

c

)

Put a character on the serial device.

This function is used by the SLIP implementation to put a character on the serial device. It must be implemented specifically for the system on which the SLIP implementation is to be run.

Parameters:

c

The character to be put on the serial device.

void slipdev_init

(

void

)

Initialize the SLIP module.

This function does not initialize the underlying RS232 device, but only the SLIP part.

u16_t slipdev_poll

(

void

)

Poll the SLIP device for an available packet.

This function will poll the SLIP device to see if a packet is available. It uses a buffer in which all avaliable bytes from the RS232 interface are read into. When a full packet has been read into the buffer, the packet is copied into the uip_buf buffer and the length of the packet is returned.

Returns:

The length of the packet placed in the uip_buf buffer, or zero if no packet is available.

u8_t slipdev_send

(

void

)

Send the packet in the uip_buf and uip_appdata buffers using the SLIP protocol.

The first 40 bytes of the packet (the IP and TCP headers) are read from the uip_buf buffer, and the following bytes (the application data) are read from the uip_appdata buffer.

Returns:

This function will always return UIP_FW_OK.