simple socket server is simple, but still need help

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Hi all, 

 Thanks for reading this thread, hope you could help me out.   My situation is here:   hardware: cIII 120 develop board software: QII 9.1 sp2, Nios II 9.1 sp2   What i have done: 1. copy the C:\altera\91\nios2eds\examples\verilog\niosII_cycloneIII_3c120\triple_speed_ethernet_design to my project fold and open with QII 2. open sopc builder and run generate 3. back to QII and compile to generate sof (time limited version) 4. open nios eclipse ide, create a new project with simple socket server template 5. to avoid troulbe, modife get_mac_addr() as: ****************************************** int get_mac_addr(NET net, unsigned char mac_addr[6]) {  mac_addr[0]='0';  mac_addr[1]='0';  mac_addr[2]='0';  mac_addr[3]='0';  mac_addr[4]='0';  mac_addr[5]='0';  return 0; // return (get_board_mac_addr(mac_addr)); } ****************************************** 6. run app as "Nios II hardware"   what I got:   =============== Software License Reminder ================ This software project uses an unlicensed version of the NicheStack TCP/IP Network Stack - Nios II Edition. If you want to ship resulting object code in your product, you must purchase a license for this software from Altera. For information go to: "http://www.altera.com/nichestack" ===================================================== InterNiche Portable TCP/IP, v3.1  Copyright 1996-2008 by InterNiche Technologies. All rights reserved.  prep_tse_mac 0 Static IP Address is 192.168.1.234 prepped 1 interface, initializing... [tse_mac_init] INFO : TSE MAC 0 found at address 0x08004000 INFO : PHY Marvell 88E1111 found at PHY address 0x12 of MAC Group[0] INFO : PHY[0.0] - Automatically mapped to tse_mac_device[0] INFO : PHY[0.0] - Restart Auto-Negotiation, checking PHY link... INFO : PHY[0.0] - Auto-Negotiation PASSED INFO : PHY[0.0] - Checking link... INFO : PHY[0.0] - Link established INFO : PHY[0.0] - Speed = 100, Duplex = Full OK, x=1, CMD_CONFIG=0x00000000 MAC post-initialization: CMD_CONFIG=0x04000203 [tse_sgdma_read_init] RX descriptor chain desc (1 depth) created mctest init called IP address of et1 : 192.168.1.234 Created "Inet main" task (Prio: 2) Created "clock tick" task (Prio: 3) Simple Socket Server starting up [sss_task] Simple Socket Server listening on port 30 Created "simple socket server" task (Prio: 4)    Everything looks smooth, but I cannot ping, telnet or whatever else. When I ping, the RX light is flashing, but TX light not.   So, if you know something about this, please reply.   Thank you.

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Yeah I don't know if a MAC address of 00:00:00:00:00:00 is going to work. You might start there. 

 Jake

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Hi Jake, 

 Thank you for reply. I did try this   ************************************************** to avoid troulbe, modife get_mac_addr() as: ****************************************** int get_mac_addr(NET net, unsigned char mac_addr[6]) { mac_addr[0]=0xB7; mac_addr[1]=0xA7; mac_addr[2]=0xED; mac_addr[3]=0xFF; mac_addr[4]=0xFF; mac_addr[5]=0xFF; return 0; // return (get_board_mac_addr(mac_addr)); } ****************************************** ************************************************** it fails too.    waiting for help

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more info: 

I disable DHCP in wizard and I use cross cable to connect board and PC directly.   is this a rare problem? nobody can help?

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Have you built your project successfully? I got errors when buiding as I use the SSS example on cyclone II