Because of the limitations of SPAN/monitor ports on switches, organizations have turned to using taps and packet monitoring switches. These solutions can be expensive which has lead companies to look ...

The phrase "sniff the network" may conjure Orwellian visions of a Big Brother network administrator reading people's private email messages. Before anyone uses Wireshark, an organization should ensure ...

Packet capture is a mechanism that copies packets received from thenetwork and pushes them into user space making the frame available toan application for further analysis. These applications can be ...

Gigabit packet processing data plane algorithms have traditionally been implemented on fixed-architecture processing chips. An FPGA platform can provide an additional level of flexibility due to its ...

There are legitimate uses for a technology called Deep Packet Inspection. But it's the "improper" use of the technology that prompted Washington-based Free Press to release a report this week entitled ...