Switchyard documentation

Contents:

• Introduction and Overview
• Writing a Switchyard Program
  • Introducing the “network object”
  • Introduction to packet parsing and construction
  • Utility functions (e.g., logging)
• Running in the test environment
  • Even more verbose output
  • If you don’t like pdb
• Test scenario creation
  • Test scenario example
  • Compiling a test scenario
• Running in a “live” environment
  • Running on a standard host
• Installing Switchyard
  • Operating system-specific instructions
• API Reference
  • The “net” object
  • Packet parsing and construction
  • Utility functions

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page

Acknowledgments

I gratefully acknowledge support from the NSF. The materials here are based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grant CNS-1054985 (“CAREER: Expanding the functionality of Internet routers”).

Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

Thanks to Colgate COSC465 students from Spring 2014 and Spring 2015 for being guinea pigs and giving feedback. Special thanks to Saul Shanabrook ‘18 for specific suggestions that have improved Switchyard.