Re: serious problems with slimp3 player

Sean Adams wrote:
> Currently my best guess is that there's some kind of unexpected or
> malformed packet which is causing the firmware to crash, and jump off into
> the routine which writes configuration changes to the flash. There are
> several safeguards around these instructions already, but there may be
> some additional sanity checks I can add.

How does the firmware handle packets that are less than 18 bytes?

> The next thing I'm going to try is sending garbage packets to the player
> while pinging it. When the pings quit coming back, you've found a packet
> that crashes the player.

How about sending garbage packets and normal (h)ello packets:
	Send garbage
	Output copy of garbage
	Send hello
	Wait for hello to come back
	Repeat
When the program stops printing stuff, the last piece of randomness on
the screen is what caused the crash. Plus, this will send packets as
fast as possible automatically.

> Are you guys up late, or early?  :)

Early. It's 8am on the East Coast.

- Jacob

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