ixy.cs is a C# rewrite of the ixy userspace network driver. It is designed to be readable, idiomatic C# code. It supports Intel 82599 10GbE NICs (ixgbe family).

• See Ixy documentation

Install the .NET Core SDK (if you're on Ubuntu 16.10, you can use the dotnet_install_ubuntu_16.sh script).

Clone this repository and build the driver:

./build.sh

This will build the driver in debug and release configuration and compile the C code.

Set up hugepages

sudo ./setup-hugetlbfs.sh

Run the packet generator demo

sudo dotnet bin/release/netcoreapp2.1/IxyCs.dll pktgen PCI_ADDRESS

OR

sudo dotnet bin/release/netcoreapp2.1/IxyCs.dll fwd PCI_1 PCI_2

Replace PCI_ADDRESS with the fully qualified PCI address of your NIC, which is typically prefixed with 0000:

Using dotnet run or the debug configuration severely decreases performance!

src/Ixgbe/IxgbeDevice.cs contains the core logic. The demos are in src/Demo. The Ixgbe/IxgbeDefs.cs file contains a huge amount of NIC-related constants. Most of these are not used in this driver.

ixy.cs is licensed under the MIT license.

Ixy.cs is not production-ready. Do not use it in critical environments or on any systems with data you don't want to lose!

Check out the other ixy implementations.