Honored Contributor
Honored ContributorThank you for these useful links.
I do have a question though. I downloaded and adapted the demo design for 10Gb Ethernet. This demo design includes a verilog Ethernet frame generator, a verilog Ethernet frame monitor, and instantiates an example 10Gb Ethernet IP. Various loopbacks are available. The demo design also includes a NIOS based SOPC system, but this is simply used for configuration (no OS, no TCP/IP stack). With this design, I can (theoretically, at least!): - test a single board of mine (using internal loopback) - test 2 boards of mine (one sends and receives, the other one loops back) Yet, I'd like to make a 3rd test. I would like to "ping" one of my board from a PC with minimum modification. My question is: do I really need to implement an OS, a Niche style TCP/IP stack? Is it naive to believe I can simply loopback the frames received from the PC into the transmitter with minimum byte analyze and overrides (no software)? Is there a design reference or a tutorial applicable here? Thank you in advance! Jankzov
