Click vs. Linux: Two efficient open-source IP network stacks for software routers

2005 Workshop on High Performance Switching and Routing, HPSR 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 18-23

  Bianco, Andrea ^a   Birke, Robert ^a   Bolognesi, Davide ^a   Finochietto, Jorge M ^a   Galante, Giulio ^b   Mellia, Marco ^a   Prashant, M L N P P ^c   Neri, Fabio ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO SUPERIORE MARIO BOELLA   (Italy)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; ROUTERS;

IP STACK; LARGE-SCALE PRODUCTION; ROOTING SEGMENTS;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 27644594567     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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