From owner-freebsd-net Fri Aug 25 8: 8:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from sentry.gw.tislabs.com (sentry.gw.tislabs.com [192.94.214.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE3B637B422 for ; Fri, 25 Aug 2000 08:08:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by sentry.gw.tislabs.com; id LAA07868; Fri, 25 Aug 2000 11:11:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: from clipper.gw.tislabs.com(10.33.1.2) by sentry.gw.tislabs.com via smap (V5.5) id xma007866; Fri, 25 Aug 00 11:10:15 -0400 Received: from localhost by clipper.gw.tislabs.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with SMTP id LAA24107 for ; Fri, 25 Aug 2000 11:07:08 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 11:07:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: rwatson@clipper.gw.tislabs.com Reply-To: Robert Watson To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org Subject: Fwd: Alpine: a new protocol development tool (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 10:08:57 -0400 From: Olafur Gudmundsson 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 >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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message