About Margouilla

What is Margouilla ?

Margouilla is the codename for an Open Network Toolkit. Please call it Marg. This Open Network Toolkit is a set of tools dedicated to Communication Protocols. Thanks to it it is thus possible to specify a protocol, evaluate its performance, bandwidth consumption, with a lot of measurement points then target a final product running on many common platform. By the way, a Margouilla is a funny small lizard that lives in sunny countries. Have a look at our logo.

Components

The Margouilla Toolkit is composed by: - A C++ runtime that provides platform independent messaging, threads management, timers, traces... - A set of common protocols ready to use (IP/ATM/Ethernet layers...). - A graphical editor with SDL design style.

Platforms

The Runtime as been tested on : - MS/Windows - 95, 98, NT, and 2000: Microsoft Visual C++ 5/6, Cygwin, Mingw - Unix - Linux, HPUX, Sun : gcc. - Embedded - eCos : gcc. Majority of common protocols run on the same platform as the Runtime. Few are platform dependant. The Graphical Editor works on : - MS/Windows - 95, 98, NT, and 2000 (Compiled with Microsoft Visual C++ 5/6) - Unix - Linux, HPUX, Sun : gcc.