Hi, I am a student of SJSU, CA. I will be grateful if any body can help me out. I have started my project on IXP1200, I need to build a rule based IDS on IXP1200. I need to know 1> is it only possible to compile/assemble and link using workbench for ACE programming, can we simulate the whole application on workbench without connecting to hardware? 2> I tried to do the hardware set up and I was able to mount the arm-be (*.uof) files, but when I tried to run the example ACE program using ./ixstart, it is giving the following error ixasl.o: unresolved symbol get_virtual_mem_map library aces require ixasl driver. ixasl driver does not appear to be running. ixconfig: Resource Manager intialization failed Wed Dec 31 20:01:40 1969 rmlib.c, line 80: open failed: errno 2 I tried somany ways, but could not solve it. 3> So please can anyone tell me using work bench what are the things I can do, Is it possible develop complete application for the ACE model or reference model to use with out the hardware. or any other suggestions. Thanx in advance. malathi