Take a look at this paper by Nicholas Weaver http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/pubs/networking/fpga-shunt-submit.pdf He integrated Click router with an FPGA implementation of an intrusion detection system.
Roman On 04/04/2011 05:23 PM, Malveeka Tewari wrote: > > > Hi > > > I am second year graduate student working in the Systems and networking group > at UCSD. > As part of a project, I am planning to work on extend the Click model to > hardware routers as well. The idea is to write a Click-shim that can allow > Click configurations to be run on actual switch hardware as well. > This is analogous to the case where an Operating System can work with both a > hardware and software TLBs. > > > I wanted to ask if anyone has already tried to extend the Click abstraction > to build a hybrid router where some of the functionalities are done by > software Click elements and some of the functionalities (for eg. header > rewriting) is supported in hardware ? > For instance if the switch vendors exposed the underlying hardware as > programmable objects or provided an API that will let you abstract the > hardware as objects with methods, will it be possible to extend the Click > model for hardware switches as well? > And if not what are the challenges and issues in supporting that extension? > > > Any thoughts in this direction will be very helpful > > > Thanks a lot! > Malveeka > > _______________________________________________ > click mailing list > click@amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu > https://amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/click > _______________________________________________ click mailing list click@amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu https://amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/click
