With an STM32 board with Ethernet compatibility, this library allows a STM32 board (NUCLEO, DISCOVERY, ...) to connect to the internet.
This library follows the Ethernet API from Arduino.
For more information about it please visit: http://www.arduino.cc/en/Reference/Ethernet
The library is based on LwIP, a Lightweight TCP/IP stack, available here:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/lwip.git
The LwIP has been ported as Arduino library. The STM32Ethernet library depends on it.
EthernetClass::maintain() in no more required to renew IP address from DHCP.
It is done automatically by the LwIP stack in a background task.
An Idle task is required by the LwIP stack to handle timer and data reception.
This idle task is called inside a timer callback each 1 ms by the
function stm32_eth_scheduler().
A DEFAULT_ETHERNET_TIMER is set in the library to TIM14.
DEFAULT_ETHERNET_TIMER can be redefined in the core variant.
Be careful to not lock the system in a function which disabling IRQ.
Call Ethernet::schedule() performs an update of the LwIP stack.
You can find information at https://github.com/stm32duino/wiki/wiki/STM32Ethernet