Raptor

Raptor is a proof-of-concept FPGA demonstrator for running Ouroboros directly over Ethernet PHY (OSI L1). For this, it uses the NetFPGA 10G platform, which has Broadcom AEL2005 PHY 10G Ethernet devices. Raptor is point-to-point and does not use addresses. It is available for Linux only and support is minimal. If you are interested in trying it out, please contact us via the ouroboros mailing list or the IRC channel.

You can clone the raptor repository:

$ git clone http://ouroboros.rocks/git/raptor
$ git clone https://ouroboros.rocks/git/raptor
$ git clone git://ouroboros.rocks/raptor

There are two directories. The linux directory contains the kernel module, the netfpga10g directory contains the files necessary to build the FPGA design.

To build and install the kernel module:

$ make
$ sudo make install

You can now load/unload the raptor kernel module:

$ sudo modprobe raptor
$ sudo rmmod raptor

To uninstall the module:

$ sudo make uninstall

You will need to get some cores (such as PCIe and XAUI) from Xilinx in order to build this project using the provided tcl script. Detailed instructions on how to build the NetFPGA project under construction.

Raptor is integrated in Ouroboros and the raptor IPCP will be built if the kernel module is installed in the default location.

Raptor was developed as part of the master thesis (in Dutch) “Implementatie van de Recursive Internet Architecture op een FPGA platform” by Alexander D’hoore. The kernel module is licensed under the GNU Public License (GPL) version 2. The NetFPGA design is available under the GNU Lesser Public License (LGPL) version 2.1.