The Click modular router

Proceedings of the 17th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, SOSP 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 217-231

  Morris, Robert ^a   Kohler, Eddie ^a   Jannotti, John ^a   Kaashoek, M Frans ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; FLOW GRAPHS; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; LINUX; PERSONAL COMPUTERS;

CLICK MODULAR ROUTER; COMPLEX CONFIGURATION; NETWORK DEVICES; PACKET CLASSIFICATION; PACKET FLOWS; PACKET PROCESSING; PACKETS PER SECONDS; PC HARDWARE;

ROUTERS;

EID: 84943563498     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/319151.319166     Document Type: Conference Paper

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