Welcome
Middleboxes like NATs, firewalls and load balancers are widely used in computer networks. However, they are not well understood or systematically studied.
To alleviate this problem, we present a simple model that can clearly and succinctly represent how different middleboxes are deployed and how they process packets. Such a model helps in planning and trouble shooting current middlebox deployments, as well as in guiding network research.
This website serves as a pilot repository of model instances for commonly used middleboxes.
If you are a developer or user of middleboxes, we request you to contribute model instances for middleboxes you are familiar with.
