Net-Blocks

Net-Blocks is a modular staged network protocol toolkit that uses BuildIt to generate efficient protocols and their implementations. Net-Blocks creates simple modules with individual network related features such as flow-identifiers, checksum, reliability, in-order delivery among others which the users can combine and parameterize to generate their very own protocol stack.

Net-Blocks is currently WIP and new modules/features are being added

Build and Test

To build Net-Blocks clone this repository and all its submodules -

git clone --recursive https://github.com/BuildIt-lang/net-blocks.git
cd net-blocks

The framework can be built with the following command in the top-level directory

make -j$(nproc)

To build and run a simple test case that runs an echo client and server on the same server in separate processes, run -

make simple_test
./build/test/simple_server &
./build/test/simple_client

If successful, the client and server will both print a hello message. If failed, you might have to kill the server background process. Usually you can do this by bring the server to the foreground with the fg command and then killing it with Ctrl+c.

Please report bugs if any by creating an issue here.