What Are We Working On?

• Testbed Reorganization (Summer 2006) We will be reorganizing the ONL testbed. The RLI will look the same, but it will require getting a new jar file and a small change to your SSH tunnel.
• Router Upgrade (Summer 2006) Various fixes to the FPX's will be made. These include:
  • Proper statistics from Exact Match filters and Route Table entries
  • Add the ability to match on TCP flags field when using General Match filters
  • Add sampling filters to auxiliary filters
• More Traffic Generators (Summer 2006) We are looking into traffic generators in addition to iperf.
• Course Material (Summer 2006) Complete tutorial pages with recipes, examples, demo gallery, code walks, etc. There's a lot there now, but we are continuing to expand the tutorial pages, especially Tutorial => Course Material. Two successful courses (one a UMass and one at Washington University) used the ONL during the Spring 2006 semester. The materials will be expanded.
• Linux 2.6 and Other End Host OSes (Late Summer and Fall 2006) Our end hosts currently run Linux 2.4. We will be upgrading them to Linux 2.6 at the end of the 2006 summer. During the Fall, we will be looking into using Xen on our end hosts to support multiple OSes.
• Network Processor Routers (2007) We will be adding new routers based on Intel's IXP network processors to the ONL testbed. This will mean that network processor plugins and even the routing code itself can be modified by the user and experiments run through the RLI using the existing paradigm.

Definitions

• Test Mode: May be turned on and off.
• Beta: Should be better than Test Mode.

What's New?

• If you encounter problems with the testbed or have requests, send email to testbed-ops@onl.arl.wustl.edu .
• New RLI (June 8, 2006):
  The current RLI jar file is here . All older jar files are invalid. You should first read the new Getting Started page. Note: It is important that you save your configuration/experiment files before switching to this version of the RLI because the formats are different.