An NP-Based Router for the Open Network Lab Project Information John DeHart

Schedule April 10: Header Format (Mike) April 17: Parse,Lookup and Copy (Jing and John) April 24: Stats and FreelistMgr (Dave and John) May 1: Mux (Mart) May 8: XScale (Charlie) May 15: Plugins (Charlie and Shakir)

Project Assignments With Design and Policy help from Fred and Ken XScale daemons, ARP, etc: Charlie With Design and Policy help from Fred and Ken PLC (Parse, Lookup and Copy): Jing and JohnD With consulting from Brandon QM: Dave and JohnD Rx: Dave Tx: Dave Stats: Dave Header Format: Mike Mux: Mart Freelist_Mgr: Dave Plugin Framework: Charlie and Shakir With consulting from Ken Dispatch loop and utilities: All Dl_sink_to_Stats, dl_sink_to_freelist_mgr These should take in a signal and not wait Documentation: Ken With help from All Test cases and test pkt generation: Brandon

Project Level Stuff Upgrade to IXA SDK 4.3.1 Project Files C vs. uc Techx/Development/IXP_SDK_4.3/{cd1,cd2,4-3-1_update} Project Files We’re working on them right now. C vs. uc Probably any new blocks should be written in C Existing code (Rx, Tx, QM, Stats) can remain as uc. Freelist Mgr might go either way. Stubs: Do we need them this time around? SRAM rings: We need to understand the implications of using them. No way to pre-test for empty/full? Subversion Do we want to take this opportunity to upgrade? Current version: Cygwin (my laptop): 1.3.0-1 Linux (bang.arl.wustl.edu): 1.3.2 Available: Cygwin: 1.4.2-1 subversion.tigris.org: 1.4.3