The packer filter: an efficient mechanism for user-level network code
SOSP '87 Proceedings of the eleventh ACM Symposium on Operating systems principles
The X-Kernel: An Architecture for Implementing Network Protocols
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Efficient software-based fault isolation
SOSP '93 Proceedings of the fourteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Extensibility safety and performance in the SPIN operating system
SOSP '95 Proceedings of the fifteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Safe kernel extensions without run-time checking
OSDI '96 Proceedings of the second USENIX symposium on Operating systems design and implementation
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking - Special issue on programmable networks
IWAN '99 Proceedings of the First International Working Conference on Active Networks
IWAN '99 Proceedings of the First International Working Conference on Active Networks
The OKE Corral: Code Organisation and Reconfiguration at Runtime Using Active Linking
IWAN '02 Proceedings of the IFIP-TC6 4th International Working Conference on Active Networks
PromethOS: A Dynamically Extensible Router Architecture Supporting Explicit Routing
IWAN '02 Proceedings of the IFIP-TC6 4th International Working Conference on Active Networks
ATEC '02 Proceedings of the General Track of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
Flexible Control of Parallelism in a Multiprocessor PC Router
Proceedings of the General Track: 2002 USENIX Annual Technical Conference
FFPF: fairly fast packet filters
OSDI'04 Proceedings of the 6th conference on Symposium on Opearting Systems Design & Implementation - Volume 6
FPL-3: towards language support for distributed packet processing
NETWORKING'05 Proceedings of the 4th IFIP-TC6 international conference on Networking Technologies, Services, and Protocols; Performance of Computer and Communication Networks; Mobile and Wireless Communication Systems
The design and implementation of an operating system to support distributed multimedia applications
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
A scalable high-performance active network node
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
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By combining the Open Kernel Environment, a Click-like software model known as Corral and basic concepts of active networking, we allow third-party code to control the code organisation of a network node at any level, including kernel and network card. We show how an active network environment was implemented and how this environment allows slow active code to control the code organisation of the fast path. The underlying code is structured much like components in a 'Click'-router that may be connected or disconnected at runtime. Not only are active packets permitted to reconfigure predefined native components in the networking code, by using the safe programming model of the open kernel environment they are also able to load and link their own native components at any place in the datapath and at any level in the processing hierarchy.