Ethernet

October 31, 2022 As Debbie and I continue the planning for our new home build, she is focusing on design and aesthetics of the project. My responsibilities are the technical needs to support a smart home, short and long term. …

Part 1: Examine the Header Fields in an Ethernet Frame For this exercise we will use a windows device with wireshark installed on it. We will be looking at ARP and ICMP packets. Thus, we will need to apply a filter. This is done using the phrase “arp or icmp”…

From this part we are going to talk about common protocols used in the different layers of the OSI model (if you want more information about that read the first part, you can find it in the following link https://medium.com/@boutnaru/computer-networking-part-1-introduction-b3f15c28ec85). We are going to start with layer 2 aka “Data…

Embedded cameras are now ubiquitous as a piece of technology evolving to meet the demands of today’s and tomorrow’s interconnected world. But gone are the days when the selection process was heavily dependent on the availability of even the most basic functions. Nowadays, several major factors contribute to the rise…

This week, I have started working on Ethernet once again. My next big goal would be to port lwIP for STM32F4 BSP. In the Community bonding period, I spent most of the time trying to make bare-metal Ethernet and lwIP work on my F4 discovery board but no success. Therefore…

Demand for faster data transfer, and more of it, has exploded exponentially over the last decade. Even before the pandemic, growth was already at exponential rates, but with the work from anywhere trend and more people gaming and streaming from home, demand rose even further. With it came an explosion…

I used to write my blog posts on Github using HubPress, but that project unfortunately died off and became unmaintainable. I was considering to replicate things here, but due to various limitations, I decided to keep the blog around and simply stop editing it. Below are links to my previous articles. The posts are from 2016/17, but most of the information has survived the years. A Practical Look at Latency in Robotics : The Importance of Metrics and Operating Systems (Sept 2016)