hi Francois, On Sun, 23 Feb 2014, Francois Zard wrote:
> Just a suggestion to the Netsukuku community. Have you guys > considered using OpenFlow? It is quickly becoming the standard and > paves the way for Software Defined Protocols. It's extremely > flexible and powerful. There's an OpenWRT image that comes with > OpenFlow. Ntk could be completely rewritten as an OpenFlow > controller in no time. You could even use Beacon and write the > protocol in Java, and actually deploy it on the switch itself. So > much easier to build, debug and simulate, and requires no deep > understanding of Linux kernel internals. It is also possible to > port it later into something that can be deployed on Gigabit > optical switches that support OpenFlow controllers and have it run > on FPGA-based hardware, bypassing software emulation and achieving > line-rate speeds. If you do, I may be able to help since > OpenLibernet shares a lot with Ntk in terms of topology discovery > and establishment and there will be lots of reusable modules in > common. Let me know what you think! good suggestion. meanwhile Luca is moving towards a new groundbreaking release soon and I'll be busy rounding up on documentation, including a new website. I'll put this as other directions in the new website documentation so that people getting involved can consider it as a possible direction to push forward and/or re-adapt NTK. all in all it looks like netsukuku is into an interesting phase. I'm quite confident that the upcoming release by Luca will give a momentum and, in the tradition of reimplementing the protocols, OpenFlows can be a platform to integrate it on mainstream appliances if anyone engages it. maybe a way to deploy netsukuku beyond its typical underground usage so far. ciao _______________________________________________ Netsukuku mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/netsukuku
