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10 years ago

network analyzer

Hey everybody. as a part of my studies i have to build an HW network analyzer, i will use the altera-DE2. at the begin i should get and receive eth packet (the information that i need is till leve...
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10 years ago

You can learn a lot just by running through an existing example.

Look at http://www.alterawiki.com/wiki/nios_ii_udp_offload_example

Get it up and running, then examine the UDP receive processing. Replace it with logic to support your analyzer functions. If nothing else, should give you a very good idea how to process the Ethernet frames in this environment.