A Case for a Stateful Middlebox Networking Stack

Besides the traditional routers and switches, middleboxes such as NATs, firewalls, IDS or proxies have a growing importance in many networks, notably in entreprise and wireless access networks. Many of these middleboxes modify the packets that they ...

Understanding, measuring, and debugging IP networks, particularly across administrative domains, is challenging. One particularly daunting aspect of the challenge is the presence of transparent middleboxes---which are now common in today's Internet. In-...

Understanding, measuring, and debugging IP networks, particularly across administrative domains, is challenging. One particularly daunting aspect of the challenge is the presence of transparent middleboxes---which are now common in today's Internet. In-...