Communication between FPGA and PC through Ethernet

Hello,

So before you can create your design you should get familiar how computers talk. Their are different type of protocols that allow this. Your fpga will be to be able to remove this protocols headers and understand what the computer wants. The simplist method I know of is by using nios with a rtos with tcp service. You can google it and find some tutorials in setting it up. Their is actually a example built in to eclipse. You would then need to establish a connection to the pc through a designated port, this would need to set up on the laptop. If your just trying to ping the laptop, you might just need to start the fpga in dhcp mode. Sorry for the information overflow, if you can't find a tutorial i can post one for you when I get on a desktop :)

-trukng