Knowing What's Under Your Hood - Implementing a Network Monitoring System

Knowing What's Under Your Hood - Implementing a Network Monitoring System

Explore network monitoring systems implementation in this conference talk from Hack3rcon II. Delve into the intricacies of high-speed packet capture, frame processing in FreeBSD and Linux, and various tuning techniques. Learn about PCI buses, kernel structures, and common problems encountered in network monitoring. Discover useful applications like PF_RING for Linux, netmap for FreeBSD, and speedometer. Gain insights into forwarding and relaying architectures, interface drop counts, and strategies for optimizing network monitoring performance.