Stenographer - A Parcel Capture Solution Which Aims To Apace Spool All Packets To Disk, In Addition To Hence Render Simple, Fast Access To Subsets Of Those Packets
Stenographer is a full-packet-capture utility for buffering packets to disk for intrusion detection as well as incident response purposes. It provides a high-performance implementation of NIC-to-disk packet writing, handles deleting those files equally disk fills up, as well as provides methods for reading dorsum specific sets of packets speedily as well as easily. It is designed to: Write packets to disk, really speedily ( 10Gbps on multi-core, multi-disk machines) Store equally much history equally it tin (managing disk usage, storing longer durations when traffic slows, as well as thus deleting the oldest packets when it hits disk limits) Read a really pocket-sized per centum (<1%) of packets from disk based on analyst needs It is NOT designed for: Complex packet processing (TCP flow reassembly, etc) It’s fast because it doesn’t practice this. Even amongst the really minimal, single-pass processing of packets nosotros do, processing 1Gbps for indexing lo...