The Multi-threaded Routing Toolkit (MRT) is an easy-to-use, extensible platform for developing and debugging routing protocols and routing code. MRT includes multi-protocol routing daemons, network anyalyzers, routing simulators and routing management tools.
Recent MRT work has concentrated on IPv6 development. We have been working with IPv6 kernel developers and other router vendors to test interoperability of RIPNG implementations. The MRT RIPNG implementation appears to be fairly stable and currently inter-operates with DEC, Cisco, and BayNetworks routers.
Other MRT researchers have worked on cleaning up the MRT code base and resolving long-standing architectural issues, including memory handling and the granularity of parallelism. Planned activities include long-overdue work on the MRT documentation and implementation of additional Cisco-like policy languange.
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Other Information
MRT runs on Solaris 2.5, SunOS 4.1.x, BSDI, FreeBSD2.1, Linux 2.0 and IRIX.
Send bugs and questions/comments to: mrt-support@home.merit.edu. Drop us a line if your are using the software -- we'd love to hear from you. A mailing list, mrt@home.merit.edu, has been created for discussion about MRT. To subscribe, send a request to mrt-request@home.merit.edu.
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A couple of notes:
MRT was developed by Merit Network, Inc. under National Science Foundation grant NCR-9318902, "Experimentation with Routing Technology to be Used for Inter-Domain Routing in the Internet."
The public domain Struct C-library of linked list, hash table and memory allocation routines was developed by Jonathan Dekock <dekock@cadence.com>
Susan Harris <srh@merit.edu> provided help with the documentation.
David Ward <dward@netstar.com> provided bug fixes and helpful suggestions.
Some sections of code and architecture ideas were taken from the GateD
routing daemon.
The first porting to Linux with ipv6 was done by Pedro Roque <roque@di.fc.ul.pt>. Some interface routines to the Linux kernel were originally written by him.
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