The "Click" modular router project is a fast, easily-extended software router. It's designed to handle all stages of IP transactions, and includes support for packet mangling, packet scheduling, queueing, etc. It can be run standalone on most Unix OSes or as a module for the Linux or Exopc kernels.
| Tags | Communications Internet Networking |
|---|---|
| Licenses | BSD Original |
| Operating Systems | POSIX BSD FreeBSD Linux |
| Implementation | C++ |
Recent releases


Changes: Updated to support recent FreeBSD kernels and Linux 2.6.19. Improved support for SMP kernels, IPSec, and e1000 devices. Compilation fixes for x86_64. Preliminary support for user-level threading. Numerous bugfixes, performance improvements, extensions, and stability fixes. Replaced and documented EWMA classes.


Changes: This release was updated to support Linux 2.6.16.13 kernel modules. Support for SNMP and NetFlow monitoring was added along with preliminary multicast routing support, accelerated routing tables, and many new routing elements, including wifi. A polling version of Intel's e1000-5.7.6 driver was included. x86-64 is now supported. Support for linking NS-2 and Click was enhanced. Preliminary Doxygen support was added. Many bugfixes were made in the core system and routing elements.


Changes: A compile bug that prevented it from being compiled as a Linux kernel module has been fixed.


Changes: BSD kernel module support was added. New elements were added. IPFilter/IPClassifier was added. The FullNoteQueue notifier was added. KernelTap is undeprecated. Various bugfixes and cleanups were done. The associated Click Packages were updated for this release.


Changes: There are updates to the WiFi/Grid code and various minor bugfixes. Elements for controlling global state have been added. Support has been added for GCC 3.4.1.