Hi Paul, Thanks for the reply. By "not working" I meant that no data appears and therefore the script stalls on the line data = s.recvfrom(1024)[0]
Also, currently I don't need very high data rates (~ 10Mb/s), but I will need them in the near future. Sean > Hi Sean, > > I've used python code almost identical to yours pretty successfully, > mainly for simple tests/debugging. Whether or not this is the right way > to build a bigger application depends on things like the data rate you > need to support, any additional data processing/formatting that needs to > be done, etc. > > What form of "not working" are you experiencing? ie, an error message, no > data appears, data comes in but you can't keep up with it... or something > else? > > -Paul > > On Tue, 23 Mar 2010, [email protected] wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I need to dump data from a ROACH board to a PC over the 10gbe. Do any >> of >> you have any recommendations for what I should use as a client to handle >> the incoming data? >> >> I've been trying to use a simple Python client like, >> >> s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM) >> s.bind((ip_address, port)) >> data = s.recvfrom(1024)[0] >> >> where "ip_address" is the address of the pc's 10gbe nic. This has >> worked... only occasionally. And I'm not sure why it fails. Using >> Wireshark I can see the incoming packets are coming in with 1024 bytes >> from the ROACH as I expect. Any thoughts? >> >> Thanks a lot. >> >> >> Sean >
