The Coraid Ethernet Console (cec) is a lightweight 
protocol for connecting two endpoints using raw 
ethernet frames.  The communication is not secure.

Cec is also the name of the client used to connect to cec servers.
Cec will run on linux, and bsd flavors supporting bpf (including OSX).

For users of Coraid HBAs, the HBA in Linux and Solaris can be used
as an interface for communicating by specifying 'hba' as the interface
name.

Cec also runs on Windows by using cygwin.  To compile in Windows, one
must do so in the cygwin environment, but it can be run from the
command prompt outside of cygwin as long as the cygwin1.dll is
available. The winpcap library must be installed for Windows cec to
work.  The winpcap libraries should be installed into the cygwin
environment by following these instructions:

  http://mathieu.carbou.free.fr/wiki/index.php?title=Winpcap_/_Libpcap

Cec is most often tested with the gcc compiler.  By default the
makefile is linux ready -- just run make.

To compile a bsd binary, run

	make PLATFORM=bsd

or edit the makefile accordingly.

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Documentation

See the cec.8 manpage.  To read the manpage before installation, some
versions of man accept a "-l" option:

  man -l cec.8

... while on other systems groff may be used.

  groff -Tascii -mandoc cec.8 | less

The CEC protocol is documented in cec.txt.


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2024-02-08 : Ediazcomellas
This fork makes small changes to the CEC software, to allow it to compile in modern systems.