P4P

P4P Portal

Overview

The Portal Server is run by ISPs who wish to provide P4P information to applications.

Packages

The Portal is subdivided into multiple packages:

• p4p-portal-server: The Portal server itself
• p4p-portal-shell: Command-line shell for configuring the server
• p4p-portal-utils: Configuration visualization and analysis tools, including scripts for migrating older configurations.
• p4p-portal-docs: Getting Started guide and example configurations

System Requirements

• Linux using x86 or x86_64 architecture
• Boost C++ Libraries version 1.35 or higher
• libmicrohttpd version 0.4.0 or higher
• libcurl any recent version
• log4cpp version 1.0 or higher

NOTE: Installing our pre-built packages using your distribution's package management system will automatically download and install any needed dependencies.

Current Features

• Support for configuration syntax version 2.1
• Statically-assigned intradomain and interdomain pDistances

Planned Enhancements

• Plugin architecture for customized dynamic pDistance computation
• Integration with BGP to ease defintions for interdomain policies
• Clustering support

Download

• Pre-built Packages
• Source Code

Documentation

• Configuration Guide (PDF)
• Example Abilene Config

Contact

• Yale P4P Team (p4p@cs.yale.edu)