ONL

The Open Network Laboratory is an Internet-accessible network testbed that provides access to a large set of heterogeneous networking resources for research and educational pursuits. Those resources now include the NetFPGA.

ONL makes it easy for NetFPGA users to integrate multiple NetFPGAs into heterogeneous experimental networks, using a simple graphical user interface. The testbed software infrastructure automatically manages all of the details, including mapping the user's topology to actual hardware and time-sharing of resources via a standard reservation mechanism.

Project summary

Status

Complete.

Authors

Charlie Wiseman, Jonathan Turner, John DeHart, Jyoti Parwatikar, Ken Wong, Dave Zar

NetFPGA base source

2.0

Wordpress Page

NetFPGAs in ONL

Website

The Open Network Laboratory

Usage

A NetFPGA-centric tutorial for using ONL is available on the ONL website. Go there for instructions on how to get an account, get connected to the testbed, and start running experiments in ONL.

Related Work

You should also look at Emulab, which is another emulation testbed that has some NetFPGAs available.