DATE: Thursday, June 19, 2003
TIME: Noon - 1 pm
PLACE: Wean Hall 8220
SPEAKER:
Chuck
Cranor
AT&T
TITLE:
Gigascope: Building a Gigabit Network Sniffer
ABSTRACT:
In this talk I will present a overview of the Gigascope project. Gigascope
is a fast and flexible next-generation packet sniffer currently under
development at AT&T Labs-Research. Gigascope's high-level goal is
to help network managers/operators diagnose problems and monitor usage
on networks as they get faster and carry more complex and demanding application
traffic. Gigascope currently supports link rates up to OC48 speed (2.45
Gpbs). Gigascope's key unique features include: a highly flexible SQL-like
query interface that enables rapid development of new queries, the ability
to collect high-level packet data at gigabit speeds in real-time, and
the ability to filter, transform, and aggregate data at multiple levels
(even within the firmware of a network interface card). In the talk I
will describe the Gigascope architecture, how it functions, and how it
can be deployed within a network.
BIO:
Chuck Cranor is a senior technical staff member in the Internet and Networking
Systems Research Lab at AT&T Labs-Research in Florham Park, NJ. He
received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Delaware,
and M.S. and D.Sc. in Computer Science from Washington University in St.
Louis, Missouri. His technical interests include operating systems, high-speed
internetworking, embedded systems, and secure systems. Chuck is also a
contributor to the open source BSD operating systems projects, having
written the BSD UVM virtual memory system, developed the BSD ATM networking
framework, and ported NetBSD to previously unsupported platforms.
SDI / LCS Seminar Questions?
Karen Lindenfelser, 86716, or visit www.pdl.cmu.edu/SDI/