Building a 10 Gbit Traffic Generator using PF_RING and Ostinato
Whoever has developed network applications, soon or later had to buy or rent a traffic generator. Years ago I have purchased my 1 Gbit IXIA 400T on ebay for 2500$, and I…
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Running a load-balanced Snort in a PF_RING cluster
Today I came across this article that I think all PF_RING/snort/suricata users should read.
Ok, but how much time do I have?
Accelerating packet capture and processing is a constant race. New hardware innovations, modern computing architectures, and improvements in packet capture (e.g. PF_RING) allow applications to reduce the (both CPU and real) time…
10 Gbit PF_RING DNA on Virtual Machines (VMware and KVM)
As you know, PF_RING DNA allows you to manipulate packets at 10 Gbit wire speed (any packet size) on low-end Linux servers. As virtualization is becoming pervasive in data-centers, you might wonder…
Introducing the 10 Gbit PF_RING DNA Driver
Today we released PF_RING 4.7.0. It includes 10 Gbit DNA support (RX/TX) for Intel-based 82598/99 ethernet adapters thus you can finally manipulate packets at wire-rate using commodity adapters. With a low-end Core2Duo…
How to send/receive 26Mpps using PF_RING on commodity hardware
Until last month, I have struggled to reach 7 Mpps packet capture using TNAPI. This week I see users still asking questions about how to handle 2 x 1 Gbit wire rate…
Using nProbe as NetFlow-Lite Cache
As previously stated on this blog, we have worked tightly with Cisco as nProbe has been selected as reference implementation for NetFlow-Lite flow conversion. Although NetFlow-Lite support has been added to nprobe…
Going beyond RSS (Receive-Side Scaling)
When RSS was introduced some years ago, operating systems had the chance to scale also when handling network packets as RSS allowed incoming packets to be distributed across processor cores. Unfortunately RSS…
Packet Capture Performance at 10 Gbit: PF_RING vs TNAPI
Many of you are using PF_RING and TNAPI for accelerating packet capture performance, but have probably not tested the code for a while. In the past month we have tuned PF_RING performance…
ntop and Silicom Inc join the forces
Since a few months ntop and Silicom have started to work together on various network-related topics. The idea is to enhance PF_RING and TNAPI in order to offer better products and support…
Remote nsec TimeStamps using PF_RING and cPacket Devices
PF_RING supports nsec timestamps from some modern NICs, such as those based on the Intel 82580 (e.g. Silicom PE2G4i80). But NIC timestamps require installing and running the application on the machine where…
Developing Monitoring Applications based on PF_RING
Many people use PF_RING just as a "better" libpcap. PF_RING is much more than that, as it can significantly simplify the design of network monitoring applications as well better exploit modern multi-core…
