[Bro] integrate FPGA\PF_RING supported NIC with Bro - offload

[Michał Purzyński]

X520 and X710 can handle that easily, with afpacket.  No need for pfring, it would not even come close to 10Gbit anyway.

Which distribution do you have to use?

> On Nov 14, 2017, at 4:34 PM, william de ping <bill.de.ping at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I wonder if anyone had a chance of somehow incorporate a FPGA NIC \ Smart NIC \ Napatech \ PF_RING with Bro ?
> 
> I would like to scale my Bro cluster and process higher volumes of traffic (5-10Gbps). Currently I use PF_RING supported nic (intel X710) to LB the traffic to multiple workers - this environment cannot handle the above traffic load.
> I could always beef up my server but that does not seem like an elegant solution.
> 
> Could there be any benefits for moving to Napatech NIC or FPGA supported NIC ?
> In what scenario an FPGA card can be integrated with Bro to offload some of its more tedious tasks to the smart nic ?
> 
> Any ideas would be appreciated
> Thanks
> B
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