Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 11:07:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@tislabs.com> To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org Subject: Fwd: Alpine: a new protocol development tool (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95.1000825110637.24059B-100000@clipper.gw.tislabs.com>
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Don't know if anyone has taken a look at this, but it sounds pretty cool.
I'm downloading it now...
Robert Watson
Research Scientist
NAI Labs at Network Associates
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Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 10:08:57 -0400
From: Olafur Gudmundsson <ogud@tislabs.com>
To: iip@tislabs.com
Subject: Fwd: Alpine: a new protocol development tool
We may want to keep this in mind for some of our experimentations in the
future.
Olafur
ps: Sorry for sending technical stuff to iip ;-)
>X-Authentication-Warning: boron.cs.washington.edu: ely owned process doing -bs
>Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 15:13:51 -0700 (PDT)
>From: David Ely <ely@cs.washington.edu>
>To: end2end-interest@ISI.EDU, tcp-impl@grc.nasa.gov
>Subject: Alpine: a new protocol development tool
>Sender: owner-end2end-interest@ISI.EDU
>
>Over the past few months I've been working with David Wetherall and
>Stefan Savage on a tool that allows an unaltered kernel networking
>stack to run in a user-level library. It's called Alpine
>(Application-Level Protocol Infrastructure for Network
>Experimentation).
>
>Probably the most unique feature of this package is that an alternate
>network stack can be used and/or debugged without modifying either the
>kernel or any application binaries. Developing protocols at
>user-level is much easier than traditional kernel develop because
>source-level debugging is available and no reboots are required
>between revisions.
>
>It has turned out to be a useful tool for us, so I thought some of you
>might also benefit from using it. It's currently only available for
>FreeBSD 3.x on Intel x86 platforms. This is an alpha release, and
>there are bound to be things that don't work perfectly. Please email
>me if you run into any problems. I will do my best to correct them.
>
>Check out http://alpine.cs.washington.edu/ for more information.
>
>Cheers,
>
>David
>
>P.S. I will be at SIGCOMM next week if you're interested in talking
>to me about Alpine.
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