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Altera_Forum
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16 years ago

Simple Ethernet port.

I've been tasked with trying to get a simple ethernet port onto some of our specialty boards. For the most part they'd be used to send down control commands and read back simple status. Likely as not...
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Altera_Forum
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16 years ago

www.faqs.org (http://www.faqs.org) has all the documentation for Ethernet protocols, pretty much going back to smoke signals. The important and intelligible ones are:

UDP Protocol: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc768.html

IP Protocol: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc791.html

ICMP Protocol (Useful to ping devices): http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc792.html

TCP: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc793.html

Also, an excellent tool you'll need is Wireshark, which lets you look at messages going through your computer's Ethernet port.

Edit: Wireshark is a piece of software, from Wireshark.org