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* build: Remove raptor IPCPDimitri Staessens2021-03-281-16/+3
| | | | | | | | | | This removes the raptor IPCP. The code hasn't been updated for a while, and wouldn't compile. Raptor served its purpose as a PoC for Ouroboros-over-Ethernet-Layer-1, but giving the extreme niche hardware needed to run it, it's not worth maintaining this anymore. Signed-off-by: Dimitri Staessens <dimitri@ouroboros.rocks> Signed-off-by: Sander Vrijders <sander@ouroboros.rocks>
* build: Update email addressesDimitri Staessens2021-01-038-16/+16
| | | | | | | | The ugent email addresses are shut down, updated to Ouroboros mail addresses. Signed-off-by: Dimitri Staessens <dimitri@ouroboros.rocks> Signed-off-by: Sander Vrijders <sander@ouroboros.rocks>
* build: Update copyright to 2021Dimitri Staessens2021-01-038-8/+8
| | | | | | | Happy New Year, Ouroboros! Signed-off-by: Dimitri Staessens <dimitri@ouroboros.rocks> Signed-off-by: Sander Vrijders <sander@ouroboros.rocks>
* ipcpd: Add congestion avoidance policiesDimitri Staessens2020-12-021-1/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds congestion avoidance policies to the unicast IPCP. The default policy is a multi-bit explicit congestion avoidance algorithm based on data-center TCP congestion avoidance (DCTCP) to relay information about the maximum queue depth that packets experienced to the receiver. There's also a "nop" policy to disable congestion avoidance for testing and benchmarking purposes. The (initial) API for congestion avoidance policies is: void * (* ctx_create)(void); void (* ctx_destroy)(void * ctx); These calls create / and or destroy a context for congestion control for a specific flow. Thread-safety of the context is the responsability of the flow allocator (operations on the ctx should be performed under a lock). ca_wnd_t (* ctx_update_snd)(void * ctx, size_t len); This is the sender call to update the context, and should be called for every packet that is sent on the flow. The len parameter in this API is the packet length, which allows calculating the bandwidth. It returns an opaque union type that is used for the call to check/wait if the congestion window is open or closed (and allowing to release locks before waiting). bool (* ctx_update_rcv)(void * ctx, size_t len, uint8_t ecn, uint16_t * ece); This is the call to update the flow congestion context on the receiver side. It should be called for every received packet. It gets the ecn value from the packet and its length, and returns the ECE (explicit congestion experienced) value to be sent to the sender in case of congestion. The boolean returned signals whether or not a congestion update needs to be sent. void (* ctx_update_ece)(void * ctx, uint16_t ece); This is the call for the sending side top update the context when it receives an ECE update from the receiver. void (* wnd_wait)(ca_wnd_t wnd); This is a (blocking) call that waits for the congestion window to clear. It should be stateless (to avoid waiting under locks). This may change later on if passing the context is needed for different algorithms. uint8_t (* calc_ecn)(int fd, size_t len); This is the call that intermediate IPCPs(routers) should use to update the ECN field on passing packets. The multi-bit ECN policy bases the value for the ECN field on the depth of the rbuff queue packets will be sent on. I created another call to grab the queue depth as fccntl is write-locking the application. We can further optimize this to avoid most locking on the rbuff. Signed-off-by: Dimitri Staessens <dimitri@ouroboros.rocks> Signed-off-by: Sander Vrijders <sander@ouroboros.rocks>
* lib: Allow pure acknowledgment packets in FRCTDimitri Staessens2020-06-061-2/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds the logic to send a pure acknowledgment packet without any data to send. This needed the event filter for the fqueue, as these non-data packets should not trigger application PKT events. The default timeout is now 10ms, until we have FRCP tuning as part of fccntl. Karn's algorithm seems to be very unstable with low (sub-ms) RTT estimates. Doubling RTO (every RTO) seems still too slow to prevent rtx storms when the measured rtt suddenly spikes several orders of magnitude. Just assuming the ACK'd packet is the last one transmitted seems to be a lot more stable. It can lead to temporary underestimation, but this is not a throughput-killer in FRCP. Changes most time units to nanoseconds for faster computation. Signed-off-by: Dimitri Staessens <dimitri@ouroboros.rocks> Signed-off-by: Sander Vrijders <sander@ouroboros.rocks>
* doc: Add missing ecmp optionDimitri Staessens2020-05-011-3/+10
| | | | | | | | The equal-cost multipath option wasn't mentioned in the Ouroboros man page. Signed-off-by: Dimitri Staessens <dimitri@ouroboros.rocks> Signed-off-by: Sander Vrijders <sander@ouroboros.rocks>
* lib: Return number of written bytes on flow_write0.17.0Dimitri Staessens2020-03-152-12/+17
| | | | | | | | | This is more in line with the write() system call and prepares for partial writes. Partial writes are disabled by default (and not yet implemented). Signed-off-by: Dimitri Staessens <dimitri@ouroboros.rocks> Signed-off-by: Sander Vrijders <sander@ouroboros.rocks>
* lib: Change return type of fevent to ssize_tDimitri Staessens2020-03-151-1/+1
| | | | | | | | The return type was still an int, but since it returns the number of events, it should be an ssize_t. Signed-off-by: Dimitri Staessens <dimitri@ouroboros.rocks> Signed-off-by: Sander Vrijders <sander@ouroboros.rocks>
* irm: Revise naming APIDimitri Staessens2020-03-151-3/+27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This revises the naming API to treat names (or reg_name in the source) as first-class citizens of the architecture. This is more in line with the way they are described in the article. Operations have been added to create/destroy names independently of registering. This was previously done only as part of register, and there was no way to delete a name from the IRMd. The create call now allows specifying a policy for load-balancing incoming flows for a name. The default is the new round-robin load-balancer, the previous behaviour is still available as a spillover load-balancer. The register calls will still create a name if it doesn't exist, with the default round-robin load-balancer. The tools now have a "name" section, so the format is now irm name <operation> <name> ... Signed-off-by: Dimitri Staessens <dimitri@ouroboros.rocks> Signed-off-by: Sander Vrijders <sander@ouroboros.rocks>
* ouroboros: Rename service to ouroborosDimitri Staessens2020-03-141-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | The service was called "irmd", but it makes a bit more sense to give it the system name. Only the service name is changed, the irmd binary remains irmd. Signed-off-by: Dimitri Staessens <dimitri@ouroboros.rocks> Signed-off-by: Sander Vrijders <sander@ouroboros.rocks>
* doc: Remove pff option from irm man pageDimitri Staessens2020-02-161-6/+0
| | | | | | | | The pff option was removed from irm tool in favor of selecting it from the routing policy. Signed-off-by: Dimitri Staessens <dimitri@ouroboros.rocks> Signed-off-by: Sander Vrijders <sander@ouroboros.rocks>
* doc: Update manpage for bindingDimitri Staessens2020-01-181-1/+2
| | | | | | | | The manpage mentions that bind works for programs, but not specify that these must be Ouroboros native programs. This is now added. Signed-off-by: Dimitri Staessens <dimitri@ouroboros.rocks> Signed-off-by: Sander Vrijders <sander@ouroboros.rocks>
* build: Update copyright to 20200.16.0Dimitri Staessens2020-01-028-8/+8
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Dimitri Staessens <dimitri@ouroboros.rocks> Signed-off-by: Sander Vrijders <sander@ouroboros.rocks>
* lib: Add per-message encryption with OpenSSLDimitri Staessens2019-08-031-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds a per-message symmetric encryption using the OpenSSL library. At flow allocation, an Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman exchange is performed to derive a shared secret, which is then hashed using SHA3-256 to be used as a key for symmetric AES-256 encryption. Each message on an encrypted flow adds a small crypto header that includes a random 128-bit Initialization Vector (IV). If the server does not have OpenSSL enabled, the flow allocation will fail with an -ECRYPT error. Future optimizations are to piggyback the public keys on the flow allocation message, and to enable per-flow encryption that maintains the context of the encryption over multiple packets and doesn't require sending IVs. Signed-off-by: Dimitri Staessens <dimitri@ouroboros.rocks> Signed-off-by: Sander Vrijders <sander@ouroboros.rocks>
* doc: Update documentation to new website URLDimitri Staessens2019-03-189-11/+11
| | | | | | | | The documentation and package point to the imec site, which is now moved to ouroboros.rocks Signed-off-by: Dimitri Staessens <dimitri@ouroboros.rocks> Signed-off-by: Sander Vrijders <sander@ouroboros.rocks>
* ipcpd: Revise UDP IPCPDimitri Staessens2019-03-181-0/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | The UDP IPCP now uses a fixed server UDP port (default 3435) for all communications. This allows passing firewalls more easily since only a single port needs to be opened. The client port can be fixed as well if needed (default random). It uses an internal eid, so the MTU of the UDP layer is reduced by 4 bytes, similar to the Ethernet IPCPs. Signed-off-by: Dimitri Staessens <dimitri@ouroboros.rocks> Signed-off-by: Sander Vrijders <sander@ouroboros.rocks>
* build: Update copyright to 2019Dimitri Staessens2019-02-058-8/+8
| | | | | | | Updates the copyright notice in all sources to 2019. Signed-off-by: Dimitri Staessens <dimitri.staessens@ugent.be> Signed-off-by: Sander Vrijders <sander.vrijders@ugent.be>
* doc: Update man page for broadcast IPCPsDimitri Staessens2019-01-162-22/+57
| | | | | | | | The Ouroboros man page will now include broadcast IPCPs and are updated to reflect the latest API. Signed-off-by: Dimitri Staessens <dimitri.staessens@ugent.be> Signed-off-by: Sander Vrijders <sander.vrijders@ugent.be>
* doc: Fix fccntl man pageDimitri Staessens2018-10-051-7/+5
| | | | | | | Patch for previous commit, which was broken. Signed-off-by: Dimitri Staessens <dimitri.staessens@ugent.be> Signed-off-by: Sander Vrijders <sander.vrijders@ugent.be>
* lib: Rename port_id to flow_idDimitri Staessens2018-10-052-11/+11
| | | | | | | Renames port_id to flow_id according to updated nomenclature. Signed-off-by: Dimitri Staessens <dimitri.staessens@ugent.be> Signed-off-by: Sander Vrijders <sander.vrijders@ugent.be>
* doc: Update man page for fccntlDimitri Staessens2018-10-051-11/+7
| | | | | | | The FLOWSFLAGS command was recently obsoleted with the removal of online reconfiguration of FRCT. Signed-off-by: Sander Vrijders <sander.vrijders@ugent.be>
* ipcpd, lib, irmd, tools: Change SDU to packetSander Vrijders2018-10-051-1/+1
| | | | | | | | This will change SDU (Service Data Unit) to packet everywhere. SDU is OSI terminology, whereas packet is Ouroboros terminology. Signed-off-by: Sander Vrijders <sander.vrijders@ugent.be> Signed-off-by: Dimitri Staessens <dimitri.staessens@ugent.be>
* lib: Simplify delta-t logicDimitri Staessens2018-06-051-2/+0
| | | | | | | | | | This revises the delta-t implementation to align with Watson's timer specifications. FRCT will never deliver out-of-order packets. A raw flow (without delta-t state machine) will be able to provide such a service. Signed-off-by: Dimitri Staessens <dimitri.staessens@ugent.be> Signed-off-by: Sander Vrijders <sander.vrijders@ugent.be>
* lib: Add event types to fqueueDimitri Staessens2018-05-141-3/+28
| | | | | | | | | | | The event type of the current event in the fqueue can now be requested using the fqueue_type() command. Currently events for packets (FLOW_PKT), flows (FLOW_UP, FLOW_DOWN) and allocation (FLOW_ALLOC, FLOW_DEALLOC) are specified. The implementation only tracks FLOW_PKT at this point. Signed-off-by: Dimitri Staessens <dimitri.staessens@ugent.be> Signed-off-by: Sander Vrijders <sander.vrijders@ugent.be>
* lib: Simplify reg/unreg APIDimitri Staessens2018-03-221-4/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The reg/unreg API is simplified to registering and unregistering a single name with a single IPCP. The functionality associated with registering names was moved from the IRMd to the irm tool. The function to list IPCPs was simplified to return all IPCPs in the system with their basic properties needed for management. The above changes led to some needed changes in the irm tool and the management functions that were depending on the previous behaviour of list_ipcps. Command line functionality to list IPCPs in the system is also added to the irm tool. Some older code was refactored. Signed-off-by: Dimitri Staessens <dimitri.staessens@ugent.be> Signed-off-by: Sander Vrijders <sander.vrijders@ugent.be>
* lib: Allow disabling partial readDimitri Staessens2018-03-192-3/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This allows disabling partial reads. It adds a flag FLOWFRNOPART that disables partial reads. Partial read is different from partial delivery (FRCTFPARTIAL), which allows delivery of fragments of an incomplete packet and thus potentially corrupted data. FLOWFRNOPART will never deliver corrupted data (unless FRCTFPARTIAL is also set). If FLOWFRNOPART is set and the buffer provided to flow_read is too small for the SDU, that SDU will be discarded and -EMSGSIZE is returned; Signed-off-by: Dimitri Staessens <dimitri.staessens@ugent.be> Signed-off-by: Sander Vrijders <sander.vrijders@ugent.be>
* lib: Allow partial readDimitri Staessens2018-03-121-1/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This implements partial read of packets if the buffer supplied to flow_read() is smaller than the packet in the buffer. If the number of bytes returned by flow_read equals the size of the buffer, the next read() will deliver the next bytes of the packet (or 0 if the packet was exactly the size of the buffer on the previous read). Implements #7. Signed-off-by: Dimitri Staessens <dimitri.staessens@ugent.be> Signed-off-by: Sander Vrijders <sander.vrijders@ugent.be>
* ipcpd: Add IPCP over DIX EthernetDimitri Staessens2018-03-101-5/+30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds an IPC Process that uses DIX Ethernet with an Ethertype that is configurable at bootstrap. This allows parallel DIX layers over the same Ethernet network with different Ethertypes (and one LLC layer). It allows jumbo frames in the future, and should avoid the problems we have with some routers not handling LLC traffic very well. The destination endpoint ID is sent as a 16 bit integer, so the maximum payload is 1498 bytes in standard Ethernet, and 8998 bytes when Jumbo frames are used. The implementation is very similar to the Ethernet LLC IPCP, so it is implemented using preprocessor macros in the single source instead of duplicating code. Signed-off-by: Dimitri Staessens <dimitri.staessens@ugent.be> Signed-off-by: Sander Vrijders <sander.vrijders@ugent.be>
* lib: Add fccntl operation to get queue lengthsDimitri Staessens2018-02-281-1/+7
| | | | | | | | | | This adds the FLOWGRXQLEN and FLOWGTXQLEN operations to fccntl to get the number of packets that are in the receive and transmit buffers respectively. The flow statistics are updated to show these queue lengths. Signed-off-by: Dimitri Staessens <dimitri.staessens@ugent.be> Signed-off-by: Sander Vrijders <sander.vrijders@ugent.be>
* ipcpd: Revise Data Transfer component0.10.0Dimitri Staessens2018-02-131-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | This makes the TTL non-optional and allows the maximum (initial) value of the TTL to be specified at bootstrap (the default is set to 60). The fd in the DT PCI is now called EID (Endpoint ID). The names "dif" and "ae" have been replaced by "layer" and "component" respectively in all sources. Signed-off-by: Dimitri Staessens <dimitri.staessens@ugent.be> Signed-off-by: Sander Vrijders <sander.vrijders@ugent.be>
* build: Use GNUInstallDirs instead of hardcoded values0.9.9Sander Vrijders2018-02-061-1/+1
| | | | | | | | This changes the build to use GNUInstallDirs instead of hardcoded values. Package maintainers can then override these defaults by passing the correct value to cmake on the command line. Signed-off-by: Sander Vrijders <sander.vrijders@ugent.be>
* doc: Set CC-BY 4.0 license on the man pages0.9.1Dimitri Staessens2018-01-118-8/+40
| | | | | | | | This adds the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 to the man pages instead of the Copyright. Also fixes the data in version.h. Signed-off-by: Dimitri Staessens <dimitri.staessens@ugent.be> Signed-off-by: Sander Vrijders <sander.vrijders@ugent.be>
* doc: Update workflow and remove HLASander Vrijders2018-01-102-455/+127
| | | | | | | | | | The high level architecture and workflow document were severely outdated. This removes the HLA document, as a paper will soon be written and updates the workflow document to reflect the current situation. Signed-off-by: Sander Vrijders <sander.vrijders@ugent.be> Signed-off-by: Dimitri Staessens <dimitri.staessens@ugent.be>
* doc: Fix typo in ouroboros man pageDimitri Staessens2017-12-201-1/+1
| | | | | | | There was a wrongly inserted "s" in the name of the udp IPCP. Signed-off-by: Dimitri Staessens <dimitri.staessens@ugent.be> Signed-off-by: Sander Vrijders <sander.vrijders@ugent.be>
* ipcpd: Use the term "layer" and deprecate "shim"Dimitri Staessens2017-12-193-65/+60
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This changes the terminology to use layer instead of DIF and deprecate the word "shim" for the IPCPs that attach to Ethernet LLC and UDP .The terminology has not yet been changed in the variable names etc. This reflects the design choices in Ouroboros to make IPCPs pure resource allocators instead of also providing an "IPC service". The Ouroboros IPCPs that attach to Ethernet and UDP implement the allocator and are thus not really shims. Signed-off-by: Dimitri Staessens <dimitri.staessens@ugent.be> Signed-off-by: Sander Vrijders <sander.vrijders@ugent.be>
* doc: Fix formatting in ouroboros man pageDimitri Staessens2017-12-171-2/+2
| | | | | | | The ouroboros.8 man page contained some bad formatting symbols. Signed-off-by: Dimitri Staessens <dimitri.staessens@ugent.be> Signed-off-by: Sander Vrijders <sander.vrijders@ugent.be>
* ipcpd: Integrate raptor into ouroboros 0.8Dimitri Staessens2017-12-151-2/+19
| | | | | | | | | | | The raptor code is refactored to completely remove reduntant code relating to addresses. The dependency on the google protocol buffers is removed. The build system will only build raptor if the relevant kernel module is found on the system. The irm tool and the relevant documentation are updated. Signed-off-by: Dimitri Staessens <dimitri.staessens@ugent.be> Signed-off-by: Sander Vrijders <sander.vrijders@ugent.be>
* lib, tools: Rename application process and instanceDimitri Staessens2017-12-024-33/+31
| | | | | | | | | | | This refactors ouroboros to use "program" instead of "application process" and "process" instead of "application process instance" to align with current naming in current Operating Systems courses instead of the ISO nomenclature adopted by RINA. This change permeates through the entire implementation. Also contains some minor other refactors. Signed-off-by: Dimitri Staessens <dimitri.staessens@ugent.be> Signed-off-by: Sander Vrijders <sander.vrijders@ugent.be>
* ipcpd: Don't bind from the IPCPDimitri Staessens2017-11-291-3/+6
| | | | | | | | | | The binding of the normal IPCP to its name is moved from the source code to the irm tool introducing the "autobind" option for the bootstrap and enroll commands. With this option, the IPCP will be bound to the IPCP name and the DIF name automatically. Signed-off-by: Dimitri Staessens <dimitri.staessens@ugent.be> Signed-off-by: Sander Vrijders <sander.vrijders@ugent.be>
* dev: Split nonblocking read and writeDimitri Staessens2017-10-301-1/+5
| | | | | | | | | | The FLOWFNONBLOCK flag now has two subflags FLOWFRNOBLOCK and FLOWFWNOBLOCK which allows setting the behavior of read and write independently. The default behavior is unchanged (blocking read and write). Signed-off-by: Dimitri Staessens <dimitri.staessens@ugent.be> Signed-off-by: Sander Vrijders <sander.vrijders@ugent.be>
* doc: Fix documentation issues0.7dimitri staessens2017-10-172-7/+4
| | | | | | | | Removed a self-reference in ouroboros-tutorial. Fixes some style issues in ouroboros(8). Signed-off-by: dimitri staessens <dimitri.staessens@ugent.be> Signed-off-by: Sander Vrijders <sander.vrijders@ugent.be>
* doc: Add general documentationdimitri staessens2017-10-1711-27/+645
| | | | | | | | | This adds user documentation for the Ouroboros User Manual in man sections 7 and 8. It consists of a general man page, a tutorial and a glossary. It also fixes and updates other manpages in the Ouroboros Programmer's Manual.
* lib: Deprecate ouroboros_init and ourboros_finidimitri staessens2017-10-148-79/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This commit deprecates ouroboros_init and ouroboros_fini and adds them as a constructor or destructor, causing these function to be run automatically when a program that links to the library calls and exits main(). For this to fully work, the library had to be split so that we can avoid the irmd calling these functions (the IRMd has to create the shm structures on which these calls depend). The library is split in 3 parts: libouroboros-dev, libouroboros-irm and libouroboros-common. The latter is linked to the other two so that including libouroboros-dev or libouroboros-irm will also link libouroboros-common.
* doc: man: Update fccntl manpageSander Vrijders2017-09-191-0/+2
| | | | | The option to mark a flow as down was missing from the manpage of fccntl.
* ipcpd, lib: Add flow down eventsSander Vrijders2017-09-191-0/+3
| | | | | | | | This adds the flow down event to Ouroboros. In the shim-eth-llc, a netlink socket is opened which listens to device up/down events. For each event the flow is then adjusted with fccntl to notify the user the flow is down or back up again. In the normal IPCP an event is thrown if a write reports that the flow is down.
* lib: Add fccntl configuration commanddimitri staessens2017-08-313-2/+120
| | | | | | | This replaces the flow_set_* commands with a single fccntl command that can configure flows and the FRCT instance. For more details, see "man 3 fccntl".
* dev: Revise fqueue API and add man pagesdimitri staessens2017-08-2914-1/+234
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* build: Revise the build systemdimitri staessens2017-08-211-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | This revises the build system to have configuration per system component. System settings can now be set using cmake. The standard compliance defines were removed from configuration header and are set in the sources where needed. Also some small code refactors, such as moving the data for shims out of the ipcp structure to the respective shims were performed.
* include, lib: Rename ap_init/ap_finidimitri staessens2017-04-136-71/+74
| | | | Fixes #35
* build: Install manpagesSander Vrijders2017-04-122-0/+41
| | | | | | This will install the manpages found in doc/man/ during installation. Fixes #38
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