Inlab Networks PCAP-Suite

 

 

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What is this? #

The Inlab Networks PCAP-Suite is an XDP accelerated set of tools which allows to capture, control and record Layer2 traffic at rates up to 400GbE.

The PCAP-Suite is our packet capture reference implementation in terms of speed, flexibility, precision and reliability.

It consists of the following programs:

ixdp #

  • XDP zero-copy ring management with scalable number of concurrent threads
  • RPCL managed (Reverse Polish Configuration and Control Language)
  • Layer2 / Ethernet metadata statistics and control
  • Selective packet capture and forwarding to fast shared memory queues
  • Full nested VLAN transparency
  • Built-in extended MAC vendor database
  • Statistics export

collect #

  • Collects packets from ixdp fed SHM queues
  • Writes standard PCAP format to a file or stdout
  • Operates on SHM queues (instead of NICs)
  • what’s actually in a particular SHM queue is determined by the ixdp configuration and Layer2 metadata

record #

  • Collects packets from the ixdp fed SHM queues
  • Manages and fills a directory with PCAP files following the configured retention and filename parameters
  • RPCL controlled, multiple background instances in parallel

control #

  • generic frontend to connect interactively to the CLI of background processes