An eXtensible Open Router Platform (XORP)

许多优秀的互联网研究都因无法在网络中最有意义的地方部署实验性路由器软件而受挫。 这个问题影响了广泛的研究，包括路由协议本身，主动队列管理方案，以及所谓的“中间盒”功能，如入侵检测系统。 由于在真实的网络条件下进行实验很困难，研究变得不切实际;通常想法永远不会从网络模拟器中出来。 为了解决这些问题，XORP项目将开发一个完整的开源路由器软件平台，从转发路径到路由协议，使用一个允许扩展的架构，同时提供稳定的性能良好的基本路由器功能。 我们的愿景是在现成的硬件上运行一个集成的路由器软件平台，该平台具有足够好的性能和可靠性，可以在各种网络条件下提供生产服务。 软件架构的设计将从一开始就考虑到可扩展性。 其目标是为需要访问路由器软件的互联网研究人员提供一个通用的实验平台;这将提供所有基本的路由器功能，研究人员可以使用这些功能来执行测量或增加新的协议功能。

Much good Internet research is being frustrated by an inability to deploy experimental router software at points in the network where it makes most sense. This problem affects a wide range of research, including routing protocols themselves, active queue management schemes, and so-called "middlebox" functionality such as intrusion detection systems. Research becomes unrealistic because of the difficulty of experimenting under real network conditions; often ideas never make it out of the network simulator. To address these problems, the XORP project will develop a complete open-source router software platform, from forwarding path to routing protocols, using an architecture that permits extensibility whilst at the same time providing stable well-performing basic router functionality. The vision is of an integrated router software platform running on off-the-shelf hardware, that is sufficiently well performing and reliable to see production service in a wide range of network conditions. The software architecture will be designed with extensibility in mind from the start. The goal is for Internet researchers needing access to router software to have a common platform for experimentation; this will provide all the basic router functionality that the researcher can then use to perform measurements or augment with new protocol functionality.