Fast PC Routers
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We're building IP routers out of PC's as tools for research and experimental network development. The goal of this work is to come up with an IP router platform which is completely open to bending, twisting, reprogramming, and the like, and yet has sufficient performance to be useful for experiments in the 1990's.
Open routing platforms are an important tool for researchers developing new protocols and architectures. The DARTnet testbed, a precursor of this work, used routers built from Sun Sparcstations to catalyze the development of IP Multicast, RSVP, and the MBONE conferencing tools. We hope our project will help do the same for Mobile IP, Scalable Reliable Multicast, and the as yet unknown technologies of tomorrow's Internet.
We're using these routers to support our own work on IP Integrated Services QoS management, new security models, and Internet service discrimination and pricing. We also expect this or a derivative design to......
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