From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.5 required=5.0 tests=SPF_SOFTFAIL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00848BC6B for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:34:11 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAGeXJkfAXQInh2dsb2JhbACOXwIBCAopgRM X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.21,346,1188770400"; d="scan'208";a="18756995" Received: from concorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.39]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 30 Oct 2007 10:34:11 +0100 Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l9U9YA0C010036 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:34:11 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAGeXJkfC/qMYh2dsb2JhbACOXwIBCAopgRM X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.21,346,1188770400"; d="scan'208";a="3823647" Received: from lipn.univ-paris13.fr ([194.254.163.24]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 30 Oct 2007 10:34:10 +0100 Received: from [10.10.1.213] (dyn213.lipn.univ-paris13.fr [10.10.1.213]) by lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1477A10C092 for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:34:10 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4726F9E8.3020305@gnu.org> Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:31:20 +0100 From: Luca Saiu User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071009) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: [ANN] Marionnet 0.50.0 X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96a OpenPGP: id=26C5D286; url=http://www-lipn.univ-paris13.fr/~saiu/lucasaiu.asc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 4726FA92.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; simulate:01 simulate:01 ocaml:01 low-level:01 sigplan:01 freiburg:01 destroyed:98 13.:98 13.:98 2007.:98 sourceforge:01 sourceforge:01 binaries:01 universite:02 implemented:02 We are happy to announce the first public release of Marionnet, a virtual network laboratory. Marionnet allows users to simulate on a single host machine a complete network made of virtual computers, hubs, switches and routers connected by Ethernet cables; any single virtual device can be created, destroyed, modified, booted, shut down, paused or resumed at any time, while the rest of the network is running. It's also possible to simulate defects in network components, with a very fine level of control. The virtual network can also interoperate with the host machine network, using the 'plug' device. Virtual computers run unmodified GNU/Linux x86 application binaries on the Debian distribution we provide; graphical application relying on X are supported. Support for other non-debian x86 GNU/Linux distributions is easy to add. As the application is primarily targeted to students it features a very intuitive graphical user interface. The application logic is fully implemented in OCaml (see [1]), but Marionnet relies on User Mode Linux [2] and Virtual Distributed Network [3] for the low-level simulation part. We wish to thank Jeff Dike and Renzo Davoli for these fine pieces of software. The download page also contains a DVD image with Marionnet pre-configured on a 'live' GNU/Linux system, directly running from the DVD without need for installation. Marionnet is free software, released under the GNU General Public License. It comes with absolutely no warranty. Marionnet is written by Jean-Vincent Loddo (http://www-lipn.univ-paris13.fr/~loddo ) and Luca Saiu (http://www-lipn.univ-paris13.fr/~saiu ), and is sponsored by Université Paris 13 as an e-learning project. Home page: http://www.marionnet.org Thanks, -- Luca Saiu http://www-lipn.univ-paris13.fr/~saiu [1] Status Report: Marionnet --- How to Implement a Virtual Network Laboratory in Six Months and Be Happy Jean-Vincent Loddo, Luca Saiu ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on ML, Freiburg, 2007. http://www-lipn.univ-paris13.fr/~saiu/marionnet.pdf [2] User Mode Linux http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net [3] Virtual Distributed Ethernet http://vde.sourceforge.net