RTnet RTnet is an Open Soure hard real-time network protocol stack for Xenomai and RTAI (real-time Linux extensions).
Download

RTnet Ranking & Summary

RTnet Tags

protocol network protocol stack network protocol Xenomai network protocol RTnet

RTnet Description

RTnet is an Open Soure hard real-time network protocol stack for Xenomai and RTAI (real-time Linux extensions). RTnet is an Open Soure hard real-time network protocol stack for Xenomai and RTAI (real-time Linux extensions). RTnet project makes use of standard Ethernet hardware and supports several popular NIC chip sets, like Gigabit Ethernet. Moreover, Ethernet-over-1394 support is available based on the RT-FireWire protocol stack.RTnet implements UDP/IP, ICMP and ARP in a deterministic way. It provides a POSIX socket API to real-time user space processes and kernel modules.To avoid unpredictable collisions and congestions on Ethernet, an additional protocol layer called RTmac controls the media access. A dedicated Ethernet segment is required to guarantee bounded transmission delays, but RTnet also includes a mechanism to tunnel non real-time traffic like TCP/IP over RTmac, thus allowing a "single-cable" solution for connecting control systems.Some possible application domains are fieldbus replacements, distributed real-time computing, or video/audio streaming.RTnet was originally developed by Ulrich Marx for his diploma thesis at the Institute for Systems Engineering, Real-Time Systems Group, University of Hannover (Germany). Now it is being maintained and improved by this institute and by several other contributors all over the world. What's New in This Release: · kernel support up to 2.6.29 · statistics support for RT NICs · enhancements of rtnetproxy (UDP, ARP) · fixes and enhancements of rt_e1000 · new experimental e1000 driver (shall once replace rt_e1000) · rtmacb driver for AT91 · hash table based UDP socket lookup · support for select() on blocking receive · configurable routing table sizes · drop socket creation/destruction from RT context · rewritten mpc52xx driver · kernel 2.4 build fixes

RTnet Related Software