This code came about when I needed to talk to an embeded CPU in a Xilinx FPGA. I have ethernet on the card as well, and the CPU is setup to handle it. I wanted to send control commands to the CPU from my Linux workstation to verify some functionality. To do this, I have two pieces of code: (1) a “server” that spins on the FPGA and receives the incoming messages, and a “client” app that can send a command to the “server”. This is a trvial example and the code is basic, but you can see how easy it would be to expand as needed.

The Client:

#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 

void die(char* msg) { perror(msg); exit(1); }

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
	int sock;
	struct sockaddr_in server;
	unsigned short int serverPort = 9999;

	sock= socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0);
	if(sock < 0 ) die("failed to create socket");

	server.sin_family = AF_INET;
	server.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr("127.0.0.1");
	server.sin_port = serverPort; .

	char msg[] = "Hello World. ";
	printf("We will send the message: \"%s\" to the server. \n", msg);

	if (sendto(socketDescriptor, msg, strlen(msg), 0, (struct sockaddr *) &server, sizeof(server)) < 0) {
                   die("failed to send message");
	}

	return 0;
}

And now the Server:

#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 

#define BUFFSIZE 255
void Die(char* msg) { perror(msg); exit(1); }

int main(int argc, char* argv[]){
	int sock;
	struct sockaddr_in echoserver;
	struct sockaddr_in echoclient;

	char buffer[BUFFSIZE];
	unsigned int echolen, serverlen, clientlen;
	int rec = 0;

	if(argc != 2){
		fprintf(stderr, "USAGE: %s
\n", argv[0]);
		exit(1);
	}

	/* create UDP socket */
	if((sock = socket(PF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_UDP)) < 0){
		Die("failed to create socket");
	}

	memset(&echoserver, 0, sizeof(echoserver));
	echoserver.sin_family = AF_INET;
	echoserver.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(INADDR_ANY);
	echoserver.sin_port = htons(atoi(argv[1]));

	serverlen = sizeof(echoserver);
	if(bind(sock, (struct sockaddr *) &echoserver, serverlen) < 0) {
		Die("failed to bind.");
	}

	while(1){

		clientlen = sizeof(echoclient);
		if((rec = recvfrom(sock, buffer, BUFFSIZE, 0, (struct sockaddr*)&echoclient, &clientlen)) < 0){
			Die("failed to rec mesg");
		}
		printf("client connected: %s\nData: %s\n\n", inet_ntoa(echoclient.sin_addr),buffer);

	}
}