The Work Around Daemon (WAD)

WAD was written so we here at Oak Ridge National Laboratory could experiment
with the knobs provided by the web100/net100 project.  We hoped to see
which variables in the tcp stack could be tuned to provide the best
performance.  Those deemed most helpful have subsequently been incorporated
into the web100 patch file for the Linux kernel. (web100.org)
The official web page for WAD:
	http://www.csm.ornl.gov/~dunigan/netperf/wad.html
This page contains a link for the paper delivered at SC02 that describes  
the work done with wad.

As with all software written for research purposes, WAD is in constant
flux and must come with the usual disclaimers.  What you are seeing is a 
snapshot in time as, most certainly, we are currently modifying it to  
try out new ideas.   

This software comes with NO WARRANTY!

contents
--------
	- README_WAD
	- source code:
	    wad.c
	    wadsubs.c
	- wad.conf:  a sample configuration file 
	- wad-make:  a sample makefile
                  
requires
--------
        - a machine running a kernel.org linux-2.X.XX kernel with the latest
            web100 private patches applied and the web100-userland api 
	    installed-- 
	    (http://www.web100.org)(You may need to alter the makefile
            to point to your userland installation)
	- also helpful to have CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV configured

feedback
--------
	We are interested in your feedback and the results of any tests
you may run. 
For problems and bugs, please contact Florence M Fowler <fowlerf@ornl.gov>
For results and observations, please contact Tom Dunigan <duniganthjr@ornl.gov>