Method and apparatus for packet analysis in a network

A method and system for monitoring traffic in a data communication network and for extracting useful statistics and information is disclosed. In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, a network interface card has a run-time system and one or more processing blocks executing on the network i...

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Hauptverfasser: Cranor, Charles D, Johnson, Theodore, Spatscheck, Oliver, Srivastava, Divesh
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:A method and system for monitoring traffic in a data communication network and for extracting useful statistics and information is disclosed. In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, a network interface card has a run-time system and one or more processing blocks executing on the network interface. The run-time system module feeds information derived from a network packet to the processing modules which process the information and generate output such as condensed statistics about the packets traveling through the network.