Mirage

University of Arizona
email: bakers@cs.arizona.edu

Description:

   Mirage is a network router that virtualizes multiple NFS file servers
   as a single large NFS file server. Aggregating multiple file servers
   allows the NFS file system to scale better by dividing workload
   amongst several servers. Network administration is also eased by
   allowing new servers to be added without the need to reconfigure
   existing client computers. Furthermore, Mirage is able to schedule NFS
   traffic to prevent Denial of Service (DoS) attacks from less trusted
   clients. Mirage is fully transparent to both the client machines and
   the file servers, allowing existing technology to be seamlessly used.
   Mirage provides these additional services and imposes an overhead of
   only 7% beyond that of a simple IP forwarding router.

Copyright:

   Please refer to the file "COPYRIGHT" for copyright information.

Acknowledgements:

   Mirage uses List and Hash packages that are Copyright (C) 1985, 1988
   Regents of the University of California.

   Mirage uses the "RSA Data Security, Inc. MD5 Message-Digest
   Algorithm".

User Manual:

   The Mirage user manual is located in the file doc/mirage.html and contains
   instructions on how to install and use Mirage.