TCP-Splitter: A TCP/IP flow monitor in reconfigurable hardware

Author

Schuehler, David V. ; Lockwood, John

Author_Institution

Appl. Res. Lab., Washington Univ., USA

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

127

Lastpage

131

Abstract

TCP/IP is the most commonly-used protocol on the Internet. It provides a reliable transport for nearly all applications that utilize a network. These include Web browsers, FTP, Telnet, Secure Shell and other applications. New types of routers require the examination of TCP/IP flows transiting this networking equipment. This paper describes TCP-Splitter, a reconfigurable hardware based solution for analyzing and processing TCP/IP flows at multi-gigabit line rates. A consistent byte stream is delivered to a client application for every TCP/IP connection processed by TCP-Splitter. In order to maintain a design that is lightweight, efficient, and able to process a nearly unlimited number of flows at gigabit line rates, the system uses a non-passive flow processing algorithm.

Keywords

Internet; computerised monitoring; reconfigurable architectures; telecommunication network routing; transport protocols; FTP; Internet; Secure Shell; TCP-Splitter; TCP/IP flow analysis; TCP/IP flow monitor; TCP/IP flow processing; Telnet; Web browsers; byte stream; multi-gigabit line rates; networking equipment; nonpassive flow processing algorithm; reconfigurable hardware; routers; Bandwidth; Communication system traffic control; Hardware; Internet; Monitoring; Payloads; Protocols; Search engines; TCPIP; Telecommunication traffic;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High Performance Interconnects, 2002. Proceedings. 10th Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1650-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CONECT.2002.1039268

Filename

1039268