CANdid Server

A server that faciliates connections between remote TCP clients and a local CAN bus. Clients are sent frames read off the bus, and may send frames back to the server that are then written to the bus.

Repository: https://gitlab.com/avandesa/candid-rs

Documentation: https://docs.rs/crate/candid_server/

Getting Started

Prerequisites

Because the server uses the socketcan crate, a wrapper for the Linux SocketCAN kernel module, the server can only run on a Linux system with the relevant modules compiled and loaded.

Installing

To install the server:

$ cargo install candid_server

To run the server on a vcan0 interface and localhost:

# modprobe can can_raw vcan
# ip link add dev vcan0 type vcan
# ip link set up vcan0
$ candid_server 127.0.0.1:6556 vcan0

Use candid_client to connect to the server. There are examples in the repository for both sending and receiving frames.

Built With

• SocketCAN - The underlying kernel module.
• socketcan Crate - Rust bindings for the C library.
• clap - For command line argument parsing.
• byteorder - For writing frames

Versioning

We use SemVer for versioning. For the versions available, see the tags on this repository.

Authors

• Alex van de Sandt - avandesa

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details