Network device driver for RTL8139C

Author

Chandan, G.N. ; Praveen, H.C. ; Muralidhara, K.N.

Author_Institution

Dept. of ECE, PESCE, Mandya, India

fYear

2013

fDate

4-6 July 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

The normal file operations (read, write, and so on) do not make sense when applied to network interfaces, so it is not possible to apply the UNIX “everything is a file” approach to them. Thus, network interfaces exist in their own namespace and export a different set of operations. With the widely application of network in Linux platform, In this paper, the design of network device driver for RTL8139C controller with implementing all four transmission register to maximize packet transmission speed also capable to detect physical trip on Linux operating system. Focused on discussing implementation principle of Linux network drivers and detailed to analysis of the frame structure of the program code.

Keywords

Linux; network operating systems; Linux network drivers; Linux operating system; Linux platform; RTL8139C controller; UNIX; frame structure; network device driver; network interfaces; normal file operations; packet transmission speed; program code; IP networks; Kernel; Linux; Network interfaces; Protocols; Registers; ifconfig; netdevice; pci; ping; sk_buff; snull;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computing, Communications and Networking Technologies (ICCCNT),2013 Fourth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tiruchengode

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3925-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCCNT.2013.6726672

Filename

6726672