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README_NETWORKING
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This file describes how to use and how to hack networking subsystem of
the Barrelfish.
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Using networking subsystem:
Currently Barrelfish supports following NIC devices
rtl8029 (Realtek RTL8029AS, emulation support QEMU)
e1000 (Intel 82576 1GbE NIC)
e10k (Intel 82599 10GbE NIC)
eMAC (on SCC)
If you want to use any of above then you should edit the menu.lst file to
reflect which card you want to use. The following example shows how to
use e1000 card.
Add following lines to menu.lst
{{{
module /x86_64/sbin/e1000n
module /x86_64/sbin/NGD_mng cardname=e1000
module /x86_64/sbin/netd cardname=e1000
}}}
e1000n: The first line will start a driver domain which will be responsible for
sending and receiving packets on one queue within the NIC.
NGD_mng: The second line starts the "net device manager" service which is
responsible for port management and handling of hardware queues present within
NIC (if any). The "cardname=e1000" argument tells this "net device manager"
that it is responsible for NIC card e1000.
netd: The third line starts the netd service is responsible for doing DHCP
to get an IP for the NIC, running ARP lookups on behalf of all other
applications, and handling the traffic which no other application wants.
This daemon also has an argument stating which card it will be responsible for.
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How to use networking from within application?
Every application that wants to use the networking should initialize the
networking. It can be done by calling a following function.
{{{
lwip_init(char *card_name, uint64_t qid)
}}}
Here, card_name is the name of the NIC device to be used (eg: e1000), and
queue_id the id of the hardware queue that should be used. The queue_id 0
is always safe option, and queue 0 is assumed to be a shared queue.
Following is the example call:
{{{
lwip_init("e1000", 0);
}}}
One of the variant of this function "lwip_init_auto" tries to guess the
NIC device name automatically by some rudimentary logic, but it does not
yet work for all devices and in all situations.
Once "lwip_init" returns successfully, the application can start using the
networking. The networking interface is based on the "Light Weight
Internet Protocol (LWIP)". Also applications like "webserver",
"echoserver", "vmit" use networking, and hence can be referred to
check how to use the Barrelfish networking.
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Known limitations:
The presence of DHCP server within same LAN is assumed to give an IP
address.
Currently, only one NIC device can be effectively used in one running
instance of Barrelfish.
The reason behind this is that currently, netd is stateless. Even though most
of the networking code can work even in presence of multiple active NIC
devices of different type, netd is still not completely ready for this
possibility.
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