The official git repository for OSD-Contiki, the open source OS for the Internet of Things
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The WinPcap driver presumes to be obligatory for the application. Therefore it quits the whole application if it can't initialize successfully. In former times the WinPcap driver required a cmdline parameter to initialize properly. The netsim target presumably doesn't consider the WinPcap driver obligatory for its applications so it checks the cmdline and starts the WinPcap driver only if it finds the WinPcap cmdline parameter present. Thus it prevents the WinPcap driver from failing to initialize which brings down the whole application. However recently the WinPcap driver was changed to just use some default value if its cmdline parameter isn't found. So there's no more need to keep WinPcap from starting just to make sure it doesn't bring down the whole application. The presumption behind all this reasoning is that a WinPcap driver running with some (potentially wrong) default isn't worse than a WinPcap driver not running at all. |
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Contiki is an open source, highly portable, multi-tasking operating system for memory-constrained networked embedded systems written by Adam Dunkels at the Networked Embedded Systems group at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science. Contiki is designed for embedded systems with small amounts of memory. A typical Contiki configuration is 2 kilobytes of RAM and 40 kilobytes of ROM. Contiki consists of an event-driven kernel on top of which application programs are dynamically loaded and unloaded at runtime. Contiki processes use light-weight protothreads that provide a linear, thread-like programming style on top of the event-driven kernel. Contiki also supports per-process optional preemptive multi-threading, interprocess communication using message passing through events, as well as an optional GUI subsystem with either direct graphic support for locally connected terminals or networked virtual display with VNC or over Telnet. Contiki contains two communication stacks: uIP and Rime. uIP is a small RFC-compliant TCP/IP stack that makes it possible for Contiki to communicate over the Internet. Rime is a lightweight communication stack designed for low-power radios. Rime provides a wide range of communication primitives, from best-effort local area broadcast, to reliable multi-hop bulk data flooding. Contiki runs on a variety of platform ranging from embedded microcontrollers such as the MSP430 and the AVR to old homecomputers. Code footprint is on the order of kilobytes and memory usage can be configured to be as low as tens of bytes. Contiki is written in the C programming language and is freely available as open source under a BSD-style license. More information about Contiki can be found at the Contiki home page: http://www.sics.se/contiki/