Using n2disk for 10 Gbit line-rate packet-to-disk
Packet-to-disk is the ability to dump network packets to disk. This activity is important for implementing a sort of “network time machine” so that when something unexpected happens, you have the ability to access the raw packets and thus inspect the cause of the problems. Implementing efficient packet-to-disk requires high-speed packet capture, speedy disks, and efficient packet dump software. We started to work on this field, a few years ago when creating a packet-to-disk application for 1 Gbit networks, named n2disk. Today we are introducing the second generation of n2disk …