Networking Interface for Open Programmable Acceleration Engine: Intel® Programmable Acceleration Card with Intel® Arria® 10 GX FPGA

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Date 8/05/2019
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3.2. Managing the Network Port

Manage the network port from the host using the OPAE driver sysfs files. The sections that follow cover some management use cases. You must read Configuring the Network Port before using the feature from any host application.

The examples illustrate managing the network port through the driver sysfs files from a shell terminal window using Linux commands and OPAE tools. From a host application, use calls to open(), read(), write() and close() from the stdio library on the sysfs files and parse the strings according to the format documented in the preceding sections.