full-disclosure - Sniffing on 1GBps

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Date: Mon Jun 19 01:54:40 2006
From: naif at s0ftpj.org (Fabio Pietrosanti - naif)
Subject: Sniffing on 1GBps

Denis Jedig wrote:
> There are some papers dealing with capturing and performance issues on
> the net, some of them published by members of the Winpcap team:
> http://www.winpcap.org/docs/iscc01-wpcap.pdf which share the basic
> idea that filtering should not be done within the application but
> either in the kernel or in the capturing device to reduce the number
> of copy operations and thus the load on the capturing system.
You probably need to use a statefull load balancer in order to split the
traffic between different probes (or different load balancers with
probes behind) and get the opportunity to do real-time analysis
(parametric interception).

-naif