This is the development and community site of the Liberouter project.
The original aim of the Liberouter project was the development of a multigigabit IPv6 and IPv4 PC-based router with an open design and software and firmware being completely open-source. In order to speed-up the forwarding and filtering functions, we developed a hardware accelerator card, COMBO6, which utilises the flexible technology of Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA). Thanks to its open-ended design, COMBO6 soon found other interesting applications, so far mainly in the networking area. Click the tabs under "Projects" to learn more about the individual projects.
If you are interested in obtaining our hardware, go to the "Card availability" page.
Recent news:
[9 July 2008] NetFPGA tutorial
The NetFPGA tutorial will be on September 5, 2008. This tutorial is done in collaboration with the CESNET, Brno University of Technology, Masaryk University, Stanford University and XILINX.
[2 July 2008] pci-bridge-1.3.0 released
The PCI Bridge firmware upgrade package pci-bridge-1.3.0 is available for download. The package is intended to work with COMBO6X card with COMBO-4SFPRO or COMBO-2XFP2 add-on cards. The package comes with updated (not NETCOPE) PCI Bridge firmware in version c610.04.08. The documentation is available at
Documents -> Package releases -> pci-bridge-1.3.0 user guide.
[27 June 2008] nic-2.0.0 released
The NIC package is available for download. NIC 2.0.0 is the first Liberouter package based on NetCOPE platform. Package introduces capabilities and performance of the platform as its simplest application, where network traffic is routed directly to software without hardware preprocessing. The package is intended to work with COMBO6X mother card with COMBO-4SFPRO add-on card.
New features include:
Firmware
- wirespeed packet reception at one SFP port
- precise timestamp support using COMBO-PTM card
Software
- NetCOPE
- fast szedata interface
- libpcap support
- kernel drivers improvements
For more information see NIC homepage, NIC NetCOPE Handbook, Readme, Release Notes, Throughput graphs.
[26 May 2008] TERENA Networking Conference 2008
A paper titled NETCONF - Secure FlowMon Probe Remote Configuration presenting our experiences of implementing NETCONF protocol was accepted and presented on TNC 2008. There is also available poster describing Hardware-Accelerated Framework for Flow Monitoring of 10Gbit Networks that was presented on TNC 2008.
TERENA Networking Conference 2008 was held in Bruges (Belgium) from 19-22 May 2008.
[11 April 2008] Presentation of COMBOv2 at Xilinx Academic Forum
New cards of COMBOv2 family were presented at Xilinx Academic Forum in San Jose, California, USA on 28/02/2008. The presented cards drew attention of many academic researchers. Cards of COMBOv2 family offer high performance for network critical application at speed over 10Gbps.
The presentation can be downloaded here
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