Introducing PF_RING DNA (Direct NIC Access)

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This is to announce the availability of PF_RING DNA (Direct NIC Access) that significantly increments performance (up to 80%) when compared with Linux packet capture and PF_RING (non DNA). PF_RING is polling packets from NICs by means of Linux NAPI. This means that NAPI copies packets from the NIC to the PF_RING circular buffer, and […]

ntop.org Joins the Open Information Security Foundation

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Suricata is the next generation open source IDS/IPS developed byt the Open Information Security Foundation. It is a pleasure to announce that ntop has joined the core development team as the Linux version of Suricata is based on acceleration provided by PF_RING. In the near future PF_RING will be extended so that it can also […]