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PromethOS: A Dynamically Extensible Router Architecture Supporting Explicit Routing

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Bernhard PlattnerAuthors Info & Claims

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

Pages 20 - 31

Published: 04 December 2002 Publication History

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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.

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