Announcements

• Major Recent Developments
  • Network Processor Routers (NPRs) (2008) We added 14 new routers based on Intel's IXP network processors to the ONL testbed and piloted them in the Spring 2008 Advanced Architecture course. This will mean that network processor plugins and even the routing code itself can be modified by the user and experiments can be run through the RLI using the existing paradigm. The NPRs will be publically available starting in September 2008. Material in the ONL Tutorial will be developed over the summer. Rough drafts will be available over the summer, and final drafts will be available in September.
  • Course Material (2008) Two successful courses (one a UMass and one at Washington University) have been using the ONL since the Spring 2006 semester. We will be integrating that material as well as new material into the Course Material section of the tutorial.
  • Router Upgrade (Spring 2008) Various fixes to the FPX's were made. These include:
    • Proper statistics from Exact Match filters and Route Table entries
    • The ability to match on TCP flags field (URG, ACK, PSH, RST, SYN, FIN) when using General Match filters
    • Traffic can be sampled with auxiliary filters by selecting a sampling option
• Other On-Going Work
  • NetFPGA We are experimenting with adding NetFPGA to our testbed.
  • Traffic Generators
    • We have beta versions of a hardware traffic generator.
    • We are installing SPECweb2005.