From time to time, we receive inquiries asking us to position PF_RING (DNA and Libzero) against Intel DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit). As we have no access to DPDK, all we can do is to compare these two technologies by looking at the documents about DPDK we can find on the Internet. The first difference is […]
Hardware-based Symmetric Flow Balancing in DNA
Years ago, Microsoft defined RSS (Receive-Side Scaling) with the goal of improving packet processing by enabling multiple cores to process packets concurrently. Today RSS is implemented in modern 1-10 Gbit network adapters as a way to distribute packets across RX queues. When incoming packets are received, network adapters (in hardware) decode the packet and hash […]