The overall lwIP design on data flows (netif,udp,tcp) is to use a user
defined callback to get data from stack and a static function to send
data to stack, which makes perfect sense. The SIO port was an exception,
the PPP stack never really used the SIO port by only using the
sio_send() function (and the ignominious sio_read_abort() function a
while back).
The way the SIO port is currently designed adds a tight coupling between
the lwIP port and the user code if the user need to do specific user
code if the current uart used is the PPPoS uart, which is not nice,
especially because all the lwIP stack is quite clean at this subject.
While we are at stabilizing the PPP API, change this behavior before
it's too late by replacing the static sio_write() calls to a user
defined callback.
Replaced ip4_addr_t to ip_addr_t in pppapi_pppol2tp_create() prototype,
now binding to UDPv6 or UDPv4 depending on the passed ip_addr_t type.
Removed pppol2tp_create_ip6() and pppapi_pppol2tp_create_ip6().
ip_addr_t is used for all generic IP addresses for the API, ip(4/6)_addr_t are only used internally or when initializing netifs or when calling version-related functions
Makes it clear we are initiating the PPP session with ppp_connect
(i.e. acting as a PPP client) so there is no confusion possible
between ppp_connect and ppp_listen.
PPP is now pointerful for a while, we don't need anymore accessor functions
for the unique PPP local and static control block. Replaced
ppp_set_netif_statuscallback() and ppp_set_netif_linkcallback() functions to
defines.
Removed pppapi_do_ppp_set_netif_statuscallback() and
pppapi_do_ppp_set_netif_linkcallback(), they were useless because
netif_set_status_callback() and netif_set_link_callback() can be
safely called while PPP status is in dead (= non open) state
and even before the PPP session is actually created at all.
The only benefit of ppp_delete() call was about having a persistent
netif interface. netif was moved out of PPP pcb so we don't need
ppp_delete() anymore, second step in simplifying the weird
new/open/free/delete PPP API.
The only benefit of ppp_new() call was about having a persistent netif
interface. netif was moved out of PPP pcb so we don't need ppp_new()
anymore, first step in simplifying the weird new/open/free/delete PPP
API.
Users might want to share a netif control block between an Ethernet
interface and a PPPoS interface (I want actually) in case PPP is just
used as redundancy if Ethernet is down (eg. PPPoS GPRS fail over).
Moved netif out of PPP control block in a similar way it is currently
done for Ethernet interfaces. Furthermore, this is a first step on
removing the "new/create/free/delete" API which is awful but currently
necessary to handle fail over from PPPoX to another PPPoX (eg. from PPoE
on xDSL to PPPoS on GPRS fail over) without free()ing the netif which
might be used on udp_sendto() or L2TP VPN links.
PPP notify phase support, using compile-time PPP_NOTIFY_PHASE macro.
This can be used for example to set a LED pattern depending on the
current phase of the PPP session.
Callback example:
static void ppp_notify_phase_cb(ppp_pcb *pcb, u8_t phase, void *ctx) {
switch(phase) {
case PPP_PHASE_DEAD: /* Kept off */
case PPP_PHASE_MASTER:
/* LED Off */
break;
case PPP_PHASE_INITIALIZE: /* Session opened */
/* LED FastBlink */
break;
case PPP_PHASE_RUNNING: /* Session running */
/* LED On */
break;
default:
/* LED SlowBlink */
}
}
Created new ppp_over_X_create() functions which only prepare the PPP session without starting it
Removed ppp_reopen() and all of its sub ppp_over_X_reopen()
Removed PPPoL2TP reconnect() function, merged to connect()
Added ppp_open() able to start or restart any session
This is now the user choice to re-establish the session in the link status callback
by either calling the ppp_reopen() to re-establish or ppp_delete() to free the PPP
control block. Without user intervention, the PPP control block now stay in the dead
phase, allowing the user to re-establish or delete the control block later.