1. 1 Emulab's Current Support For IXPs: An example of support for non-PCs

2. 2 IXPs May be a good model for handling motes and other special hardware Intel's network processors StrongARM chip that runs Linux Hosted as a PCI card in a PC Serial line for control –We attach it to the host PC Impoverished environment –We do configuration from the outside

3. 3 IXP Integration in Emulab In two ways: Available to remote researchers –Same ease of use and automatic setup of other Emulab resources, now extended to the IXP –Can be configured in an arbitrary network topology with end-nodes and routers, to experiment with and evaluate an IXP-based application As transparent high capacity link-emulators

4. 4 Challenges Issue: an IXP is not 1 computer, it’s several! –Host PC –StrongArm –Microengines –Microcode development box? Local or remote? Add a “sub-node” notion throughout Emulab Both IXP and its host are first-class entities –PC can be implicitly allocated and associated to IXP –User gets handles on both so can manipulate them, e.g., load custom image

5. 5 How Emulab Handles IXPs Hierarchical nodes –IXP is a 'subnode' of its host –Each can have its own links –Each can be manipulated separately in NS file –Mapper understands subnode relationshipts Bootstrap over the serial line Do configuration of Linux over the serial line Generate config for reference router app

6. 6 Demo Topology SRC DST IXP1200 CARD HOST PC link Control interface

7. 7 Features Routes, interface configuration generated by Emulab Routable IP addresses assigned to the control interface between the host and the IXP Project directories mounted on the card from emulab file server, IXP SDK directory mounted from the host Hosts, name server files mounted on the card.

8. 8 More Features… Automatic booting and setup of the card Serial console, power controller access Support for a startup command on the IXP: enables download of custom application to the microengines. For example: tb-start /proj/foo/myapp /proj/foo/config Support for Windows development environment coming