A Divert Mechanism for Service Overlays
Report ID: TR-668-03Author: Nakao, Akihiro / Peterson, Larry / Wawrzoniak, Mike
Date: 2003-02-00
Pages: 5
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Abstract:
Shared overlay nodes such as the ones in PlanetLab enabled a new perspective on overlays, in which a user can subscribe to arbitrary overlays, each of which implements some network service on behalf of the user's applications. We have designed and implemented a general-purpose mechanism to transparently divert packets belonging to designated applications onto service overlays, and we demonstrated how our mechanism can be used to divert packets from applications like http, ssh, sftp onto a RON-based routing overlay.