Example designs for communicating two Altera boards

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I just found out that our NIC with SFP+ connector is the second one you found:

http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?item=n82e16833120384

And it does only support Window Server among Windows OSs. We may have to decide whether:

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That is unfortunate.

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1-Buy new NIC(s) that support Windows 7/vista or XP so that we can use Quartus II in Windows. But this seems to be an expensive choice.

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You're kidding right? Your bosses went out and purchased $16,000 worth of Stratix GT kits before even determining that you could use them for your project ...

http://www.altera.com/products/devkits/altera/kit-stratix-iv-gt-si.html

and now they won't bother to spend $600 on a new NIC. Not only do you need the NIC, you also need the SFP+-to-SMA adapters.

Just buy the hardware. The time you are wasting now, and will waste trying to use an unsupported OS, will far exceed $600.

Cheers,

Dave