Category: Napatech

Accelerated Snort with a Custom DAQ Module

March 30th, 2011 · caldejon · Acceleration, Napatech, Open Source, Snort 2 comments

I am sharing this video as a follow-up to last week’s blog entry about hardware acceleration. With permission from our customer (undisclosed), I captured a very short video clip of sixteen (16) instances of Snort 2.9.x running under a load.

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Achieving 10Gbps Write-to-disk Performance (Part 2)

March 15th, 2011 · caldejon · Acceleration, Napatech, nPulse Technologies No comments

This is the second in a five-part blog series on how nPulse Technologies achieves wire-speed capture-to-disk performance at 10Gbps.

Napatech NT20E2 Capture Adapter (above)

Design Rule #1:  Capture Acceleration

The first and most important component for high-performance network recording is to use a network adapter designed specifically for packet capture. 

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Suricata at ~10Gbps

February 15th, 2011 · caldejon · Napatech, Open Source, Suricata 2 comments

Curious to see what an accelerated Suricata looks like under a load? Take a look.

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