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Anypoint Prototype

**Figure:** The switch extracts frames from incoming network segments and packs them into outgoing segments.
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We prototyped a host-based Anypoint switch as a set of kernel extensions to FreeBSD, implementing the transport switching mechanisms and ALRM interface. The prototype consists of 2080 lines of C code. We also implemented Anypoint ALRMs for the Slite service described in Section 3.2 and a simple clustered counter service for microbenchmarking.

ACP Transport
Switch Prototype

Kenneth G. Yocum
2003-01-20