[Planetlab-users] PL-VINI and PlanetLab V4.2

[Andy Bavier]

Hi Alam,

I think your questions are in response to my post the other day:

http://lists.planet-lab.org/pipermail/users/2008-July/002810.html

Probably I wasn't clear enough in my reply.  I'm the maintainer of
PL-VINI.  The issues with running PL-VINI on PL4.2 are (1) tun/tap
support is not yet there on PlanetLab, though it's being worked on,
and (2) library incompatibilities, since the PL-VINI tools were
compiled for FC4 and PL4.2 is based on Fedora 8.  My expectation is
that PL-VINI would work on PL4.2 once these two issues are resolved.

It's currently not a high priority to get PL-VINI working on PL4.2,
and we may even stop supporting it altogether unless I hear a great
public outcry.  As I mentioned before, the VINI developers are working
on a replacement to PL-VINI called Trellis, which pushes the
virtualized data plane into the kernel inside the slice.  However, if
someone in the community is willing to recompile the PL-VINI tools for
F8, and test it on PlanetLab 4.2 to make sure that it works, I'm happy
to update PL-VINI for the time being.

Finally, you might check out the Click modular router
(http://read.cs.ucla.edu/click/).  PL-VINI used Click to implement a
user-space data plane, and it might give you most of what you are
looing for.

Cheers,
Andy

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 9:49 AM,  <abakr at stevens.edu> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Does the new version of PlanetLab, V4.2, support PL-VINI ?
> If not, is there any plan soon to be saupported ?
>
> Is there any other tools or ways to use a node as router ?
>
> I need to route data thru PlanetLab nodes and I need some help here please.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Alam
>
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