A Windows Support Framework for the NetFPGA 2 Platform
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The NetFPGA 2 platform is widely used by the networking research and education communities. But the current software package supports only Linux. This paper describes the development of a Windows Support Framework for the NetFPGA 2 platform. We present the Windows Support Framework design after we briefly introduce the Windows Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS). We then describe the implementation details such as drivers structure, the packet send/receive procedures, and the user-mode tool kit. Experiments show that our implementation achieves 160Mb/s sending rate and 230Mb/s receiving rate, respectively. We hope the Windows Support Framework brings NetFPGA to those researchers and students who are familiar with the Windows operating system.
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تاریخ انتشار 2008