Anteater is a tool that detects networking bugs through static analysis of the data plane state of the networking devices. Anteater translates high-level network invariants into boolean satisfiability problems (SAT), checks them against network state using a SAT solver, and reports counterexamples if violations have been found.
For more information please read the paper published in SIGCOMM'2011:
Haohui Mai et al. Debugging the data plane with Anteater. In the Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2011 conference.
Anteater requires the following dependency to build and run:
- CMake 2.6 or higher
- LLVM 2.9
- Boost 1.42
- Coreutils
- A SAT solver (currently Anteater supports Boolector, Yices and Z3)
To build Anteater:
$ cmake
$ make
You can find the invariant checkers described in the paper under the tools/scripts directory and run them to detect networking issues.
Your pull requests are appreciated!