Ixy – a userspace network driver in 1000 lines of code

There was a talk about this at 34c4 earlier today.<p>Demystifying Network Cards<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;events.ccc.de&#x2F;congress&#x2F;2017&#x2F;Fahrplan&#x2F;events&#x2F;9159.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;events.ccc.de&#x2F;congress&#x2F;2017&#x2F;Fahrplan&#x2F;events&#x2F;9159.htm...</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;streaming.media.ccc.de&#x2F;34c3&#x2F;relive&#x2F;9159" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;streaming.media.ccc.de&#x2F;34c3&#x2F;relive&#x2F;9159</a>

From the draft paper: &quot;It should be noted that the Snabb project [16] has similar design goals, ixy tries to be one order of magnitude simpler than Snabb. For example, Snabb targets 10,000 lines of code [15], we target 1,000 lines of code and Snabb builds on Lua with LuaJIT instead of C limiting accessibility.&quot;<p>Snabb aims at practicality while Ixy aims at education, as I understand it, though I haven&#x27;t read either one yet.

Is it possible to try this out in a VM? I.e. are there any VMs out there that emulates the hardware well enough to be usable with Ixy?

<i>Implement at least one other driver beside ixgbe</i><p>Other NICs with documented and relatively simple interfaces include the (rather old) Ne2000, 8254x, and some of the Realtek ones:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.osdev.org&#x2F;Category:Network_Hardware" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.osdev.org&#x2F;Category:Network_Hardware</a>

I listened to this talk and enjoyed it.<p>Question for the author. It reminded me of something else, a number of years ago.<p>Did you ever consider this:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.rumpkernel.org&#x2F;Repo:-drv-netif-dpdk" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.rumpkernel.org&#x2F;Repo:-drv-netif-dpdk</a>