PromethOS: A Dynamically Extensible Router Architecture Supporting Explicit Routing

  • Authors:
  • Ralph Keller;Lukas Ruf;Amir Guindehi;Bernhard Plattner

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IWAN '02 Proceedings of the IFIP-TC6 4th International Working Conference on Active Networks
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Commercially available routers typically have a monolithic operating system that cannot be easily tailored and upgraded and support new network protocols. PromethOS is a modular router architecture based on Linux 2.4 which can be dynamically extended by plugin modules that are installed in the networking kernel. To install and configure plugins we present a novel signaling protocol that establishes explicitly routed paths transiting selected nodes in a predefined order. Such paths can be non-simple, where a given node is being visited more than once.