Netnice is a network control primitive on end-hosts, which provides great freedom in traffic control and system protection,through hierarchical virtualization of network interfaces.
The hierarchical virtual
network interface (VIF) has
integrated network QoS and security control into a single framework, and realizes a variety of controls that has not been possible.
On May 25, 2004, Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan (IPA), decided to give one-year financial support for the Project, to port the mechanism onto other platform and to develop various applications.
News Flash
April 25, 2010
Maintenance of the project website is done. Sorry for the inconvenience!
July 27, 2005
Netnice-2.2 Beta for FreeBSD 4.11 and for FreeBSD 5.4 are released.
Feb 8, 2005
Netnice-2.2 Alpha is released. The latest package includes kernel patches for FreeBSD5, Linux, NetBSD and OpenBSD.
August 1, 2004 We renewed our project homepage!
June 27, 2004 We released a bootable CD-ROM image for evaluation, here. It includes the netnice package and appliactions, as well as the X11 desktop environment, for easy evaluation of Netnice. A
Screenshot is also available.
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