DATE: Thursday , December 6, 2001
TIME: Noon - 1 pm
PLACE: Hamerschlag Hall, D-Level Conference Room
SPEAKER:
Tammo
Spalink
Princeton University
TITLE:
Building a Robust Software-Based Router Using Network Processors
ABSTRACT:
Recent efforts to add new services to the Internet have increased interest
in software-based routers that are easy to extend and evolve. This talk
describes our experiences using emerging network processors -- in particular,
the Intel IXP1200 -- to implement a router. We show it is possible to
combine an IXP1200 development board and a PC to build an inexpensive
router that forwards minimum-sized packets at a rate of 3.47Mpps. This
is nearly an order of magnitude faster than existing pure PC-based routers,
and sufficient to support 1.77Gbps of aggregate link bandwidth. At lesser
aggregate line speeds, our design also allows the excess resources available
on the IXP1200 to be used robustly for extra packet processing. For example,
with 8 * 100Mbps links, 240 register operations and 96 bytes of state
storage are available for each 64-byte packet. Using a hierarchical architecture
we can guarantee line-speed forwarding rates for simple packets with the
IXP1200, and still have extra capacity to process exceptional packets
with the Pentium. Up to 310Kpps of the traffic can be routed through the
Pentium to receive 1510 cycles of extra per-packet processing.
BIO:
Tammo received his BS in Computer Science from CMU in 1997. At CMU, he
worked with Garth Gibson on mobile code for networked attached storage.
He went on to work with John Hartman at the University of Arizona on distributed
parallel log-structured file systems, and received an MS degree in 1999.
Tammo is currently a PhD candidate working with Larry Peterson at Princeton
University on improving the Internet's infrastructure.
SDI / LCS Seminar Questions?
Karen Lindenfelser, 86716, or visit www.pdl.cmu.edu/SDI/