uip_arp_ipin() is an empty macro with its body under #if 0, both inherited
from the uIP import and untouched since. That leaves uip_arp_update()
reachable only from uip_arp_arpin(), so an entry is refreshed only by ARP
addressed to us and ages out after UIP_ARP_MAXAGE no matter how much traffic
passed over it.
When it goes, the next transmission to that host hits the miss path of
uip_arp_out(), which overwrites the packet in uip_buf with an ARP request and
returns. For TCP that costs a retransmission. For UDP nothing retransmits, and
handle_tx() sends the UDP connections through uip_arp_out() too, so the
datagram is lost.
The body could not be enabled as written: uip_len -= sizeof(struct uip_eth_hdr)
is a leftover from when UIP_LLH_LEN was 0. Here it is ETHER_HEADER_SIZE +
RTL_FRAME_DESC_SIZE and uip.c reads the IP header at uip_buf[UIP_LLH_LEN], so
uip_len has to keep the link layer in it. The rest of the function is sound.
We use the SoC's UUID to generate a fixed MAC for a particular
switch device. The MAC generated uses a Realtek prefix and then
is followed by 3 bytes genertaed from the first 3 bytes of the
UUID xored with the last byte in order to prevent being able
to deduce the UUID from the public MAC.