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NOTE: These stack initialisation APIs have been deprecated as of FreeRTOS V4.0.0 onwards. Please refer to Initialising the TCP/IP Stack for the new APIs supporting IPv6, Multiple Endpoints and Multiple interfaces. To use the deprecated APIs please set ipconfigIPv4_BACKWARD_COMPATIBLE to 1 in the FreeRTOSIPConfig.h header file.

Initialising the TCP/IP Stack
Part of the FreeRTOS-Plus-TCP Networking Tutorial

This page describes FreeRTOS_IPInit() and the callback function that gets invoked when 'network up' and 'network down' events occur.

FreeRTOS_IPInit() must be the first FreeRTOS-Plus-TCP function called. FreeRTOS_IPInit() can be called before or after the RTOS scheduler is started.

FreeRTOS_IPInit() creates the FreeRTOS-Plus-TCP RTOS task. The FreeRTOS-Plus-TCP task configures and initialises the network interface. If ipconfigUSE_NETWORK_EVENT_HOOK is set to 1 in FreeRTOSIPConfig.h then the TCP/IP stack will call the vIPNetworkEventHook() callback function when the network is ready for use.

Two examples are provided below. The first demonstrates FreeRTOS_IPInit(). The second demonstrates vIPNetworkEventHook().



/* The MAC address array is not declared const as the MAC address will
normally be read from an EEPROM and not hard coded (in real deployed
applications).*/

static uint8_t ucMACAddress[ 6 ] = { 0x00, 0x11, 0x22, 0x33, 0x44, 0x55 };

/* Define the network addressing. These parameters will be used if either
ipconfigUDE_DHCP is 0 or if ipconfigUSE_DHCP is 1 but DHCP auto configuration
failed. */

static const uint8_t ucIPAddress[ 4 ] = { 10, 10, 10, 200 };
static const uint8_t ucNetMask[ 4 ] = { 255, 0, 0, 0 };
static const uint8_t ucGatewayAddress[ 4 ] = { 10, 10, 10, 1 };

/* The following is the address of an OpenDNS server. */
static const uint8_t ucDNSServerAddress[ 4 ] = { 208, 67, 222, 222 };

int main( void )
{
/* Initialise the RTOS's TCP/IP stack. The tasks that use the network
are created in the vApplicationIPNetworkEventHook() hook function
below. The hook function is called when the network connects. */

FreeRTOS_IPInit( ucIPAddress,
ucNetMask,
ucGatewayAddress,
ucDNSServerAddress,
ucMACAddress );

/*
* Other RTOS tasks can be created here.
*/


/* Start the RTOS scheduler. */
vTaskStartScheduler();

/* If all is well, the scheduler will now be running, and the following
line will never be reached. If the following line does execute, then
there was insufficient FreeRTOS heap memory available for the idle and/or
timer tasks to be created. */

for( ;; );
}

Example use of the FreeRTOS_IPInit() API function




void vApplicationIPNetworkEventHook( eIPCallbackEvent_t eNetworkEvent )
{
static BaseType_t xTasksAlreadyCreated = pdFALSE;

/* Both eNetworkUp and eNetworkDown events can be processed here. */
if( eNetworkEvent == eNetworkUp )
{
/* Create the tasks that use the TCP/IP stack if they have not already
been created. */

if( xTasksAlreadyCreated == pdFALSE )
{
/*
* For convenience, tasks that use FreeRTOS-Plus-TCP can be created here
* to ensure they are not created before the network is usable.
*/


xTasksAlreadyCreated = pdTRUE;
}
}
}

Example vApplicationIPNetworkEventHook() definition


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