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Architecture of a Network Monitor

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Overview This paper describes a system for simultaneously monitoring multiple protocols. It performs full line-rate capture and implements on-line analysis and compression to record interesting data without loss of information. The researchers accept that the balance must be maintained in such a system between disk-bandwidth, CPU-capacity and data-reduction in order to perform monitoring at full line-rate. The researchers present the architecture in detail and measure the performance of the sample implementation, Nprobe.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	University of Cambridge	File Format	PDF
Date Published	December 2007
Format	White Papers
Topics	Monitoring Systems, Network Design, Network Administration

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