hardware for argus with 10GB link

[Guillaume FORTAINE]

On 04/25/2010 07:32 PM, Carter Bullard wrote:
> I'd love to work with anyone to make things go faster.  It would be really cool if someone had
> some bucks to do it.
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We have :

a) The FPGA Framework to offload the time critical parts of the application

http://merlin.fit.vutbr.cz/ant/technology/netcope_platform.html

http://www.liberouter.org/netcope/index.php


b) The team to do FPGA Development

http://www.invea-tech.com/fpga-solutions/fpga-solutions-overview


The question is : Is there a market ?

Especially, what is the value-add of Argus in comparison to IPFIX ?

I look forward to your answer,

Best Regards,

Guillaume FORTAINE



> Carter
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> On Apr 23, 2010, at 3:14 PM, Michael Sanderson wrote:
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>> We've recently had our campus network connection upgraded to 10Gb and are now looking at our options for tapping that connection and getting argus collecting data again.  We'll be tapping our fibre links with most likely with NetOptics taps, but we're looking for suggestions of appropriate 10Gb NICs for our argus "sensor" box.  We definitely won't be pushing the 10Gb link initially, but I expect that we'll see periods where we approach 2Gb sustained.
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>> I recall discussion on the list regarding interrupt coalescing on the network cards generating potential issues due to the way that time stamps are assigned to packets.  I know that Endance's DAG cards solve this particular issue by timestamping every packet, but they are expensive and eat a big portion of my hardware budget.
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>> Does anyone recall the specific issues with interrupt coalescing and argus?  There will definitely be potential for out of order TCP connection startup/shutdown.  What is the impact on the flow reporting?
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>> Are there other options to Endance's cards that solve the timestamp problem, either other vendors or system/kernel configuration?
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>> Thanks,
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>>     Michael Sanderson
>>     Manager, Computing Facilities
>>     Department of Computer Science
>>     University of British Columbia
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