Bug#793098: ITP: pfring -- PF_RING is a high-speed packet capture, filtering and analysis framework.
* Ander Juaristi:
> PF_RING is a high-speed packet capture, filtering and analysis
> framework. It's composed of a kernel module that does all the
> low-level packet capture work, and a user-space library
> (libpfring.so/libpfring.a) applications written in C can be linked
> against.
Nice to see that somebody wants to work on this.
> Also, it provides some specialized PF_RING-aware drivers for the most
> popular NICs that provide better performance, but whose installation
> is optional. The kernel module and the drivers are distributed under
> the GNU GPLv2 license, and the user-space library under LGPLv2.1.
This is only half the truth -- there are closed bits that are needed to
enable the "DNA" feature.
The source tarball also contains patched versions of not quite up-to-date
versions of some software:
- tcpdump
- libpcap
- snort
Do you have plans to get any of those changes integrated into existing
packages?
Cheers,
-Hilko
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