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Flowatcher

Flowatcher is a real-time flow-based traffic monitoring tool for 10 Gbit Ethernet. This is built on DPDK (http://dpdk.org/), and based in part on the work of the libwebsockets project (https://libwebsockets.org/).

Installation

  1. Install the dependencies (see below)
  2. git submodule update --init
  3. ./build.sh
  4. ./setup-dpdk.sh
  5. ./run.sh (Run Flowatcher App)

Note: The scripts work on x86_64 Linux.

Requirements

  • NICs supported by DPDK
    • for capturing traffic
  • 16GB memory

Dependencies

  • gcc
  • make
  • cmake (2.8 or greater)
  • openssl (for building libwebsockets)
  • zlib-devel
  • openssl-devel
  • kernel headers (for the DPDK igb-uio driver)

for Debian/Ubuntu:

# apt-get install gcc make cmake openssl zlib1g-dev libssl-dev linux-headers-$(uname -r)

Run Flowatcher App

  • Start processing packets
# ./run.sh
  • Get real-time monitoring
    • Access below with your browser, then get a sample client page
    • Port number is configurable in src/config.h
http://[IP address of your host running App]:7681/

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