Blackhawk Publish/Subscribe Prototype v0.3 for FreeBSD

Version 0.3 of the PSIRP & ICT SHOK FI & PURSUIT projects' Blackhawk prototype features:

• blackboard-based publish/subscribe system integrated with the FreeBSD kernel
• the possibility to build small-scale pub/sub networks that utilize forwarding with zFilters

Blackhawk v0.3.0 was released on 2010-06-30.

Virtual Machine Images

FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-amd64 + Blackhawk v0.3.0 installed on a virtual machine image compatible with VMware, VirtualBox, KVM, and other virtualization software.

In order to start Blackhawk, just run reloadps or reloadps net after logging in!

Download VM image:

• VMDK with FreeBSD 8.0 and Blackhawk v0.3.0 for KVM or VMware (256 MB .zip), or
• OVF with FreeBSD 8.0 and Blackhawk v0.3.0 for for VirtualBox or VMware (286 MB .zip)
• OVF with FreeBSD 8.1 and Blackhawk v0.3.1 (307 MB .tgz, added 2010-11-30)
• Note: The source code for v0.3.1 is in the v0.3.0 directory
• If you have problems importing this VM image into VirtualBox, you can try to use this OVF file instead
  (requires the virtual disk provided in the tgz-file still)

Source Code

The source code is published under the GPLv2 and BSD licenses.

Download source code:

• Blackhawk v0.3.0 .tar.gz (183 kB) or .zip (277 kB)
• Blackhawk v0.3.1 with support for FreeBSD 8.1 (otherwise identical to v0.3.0): .zip (281 kB, added 2011-01-17)

Documentation

Check the PSIRP Code Wiki for more or less up-to-date documentation.