Switchyard documentation

• Introduction and Overview
• Writing a Switchyard program
  • Introducing the “network object”
  • Introduction to packet parsing and construction
  • Utility functions
  • Passing arguments into a Switchyard program
• Running in the test environment
  • Test output
  • Verbose test output
  • When a test fails
  • Another example
  • Even more verbose output
  • If you don’t like pdb
  • Checking code coverage
• Test scenario creation
  • Test scenario examples
  • Compiling a test scenario
• Running in a “live” environment
  • Basic command-line recipe
  • Including or excluding particular interfaces
  • Firewall options
• Advanced API topics
  • Creating new packet header types
  • Application layer socket emulation and creating full protocol stacks
• Installing Switchyard
  • Operating system-specific instructions
• API Reference
  • Net object reference
  • Interface and InterfaceType reference
  • Ethernet and IP addresses
  • Packet parsing and construction reference
  • Test scenario creation
  • Application-layer
  • Utility functions
• Release notes
  • 1.0.0
  • 2017.01.4
  • 2017.01.3
  • 2017.01.2
  • 2017.01.1
  • alphav2
  • alphav1
• Acknowledgments and thanks

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page

I gratefully acknowledge support from the NSF. The materials here are based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grants CNS-1814537 (“NeTS: Small: RUI: Automating Active Measurement Metadata Collection and Analysis”; 2018-2021) and CNS-1054985 (“CAREER: Expanding the functionality of Internet routers”; 2011-2017).

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.

License

The Switchyard software is distributed under terms of the GNU General Public License, version 3.

Switchyard’s documentation is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/.