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System Requirements

Operating Systems and Distros

• Recommended: Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04,
• Okay: Other Linux distros, macOS, Windows + WSL2
• May Work: Windows Native (MSVC)

Compiler

KENS v3.1 or higher requires C++17.

Environment	Supported Compilers
Windows	MSVC (19.10), Clang (only 11)
macOS	AppleClang (10.0.0 or higher)
Linux	GCC (7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13), Clang (7, 8, 9, 10, 11)

Getting Started

	Supported Environments
Windows (x64, obsolete)	CLI (obsolete) , Visual Studio (obsolete), Visual Studio Code (obsolete)
Windows + WSL (x64)	CLI , Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code
macOS (x64, aarch64)	CLI, Xcode, Visual Studio Code
Linux (x64)	CLI, Visual Studio Code, IDE (unofficial)
Docker (x64)	CLI

Project Assignments

Semester	PDFs
2025 Spring	PA1
2022 Spring	PA1, PA2, PA3, PA4
2021 Fall	PA2, PA3, PA4
2021 Spring	PA2, PA3, PA4

Discussions and Q&A

https://github.com/ANLAB-KAIST/KENSv3/discussions

Tips

• Managing File Descriptors
• Returning a System Call
• Sending and Receiving a Packet
• Figuring out the Source IP Address to Use
• Using a Timer
• Networking Utilities
• Using pcap files
• Debugging Memory Bugs (Only for macOS Linux)

Resources

• API Documentation
• Statistics
• KENSv2 Paper
• External Resources