This is the development and community site of the Liberouter project.
The original aim of the Liberouter project was the development of a multigigabit IPv6 and IPv4 PC-based router with an open design and software and firmware being completely open-source. In order to speed-up the forwarding and filtering functions, we developed a hardware accelerator card, COMBO6, which utilises the flexible technology of Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA). Thanks to its open-ended design, COMBO6 soon found other interesting applications, so far mainly in the networking area. Click the tabs under "Projects" to learn more about the individual projects.
If you are interested in obtaining our hardware, go to the "Card availability" page.
Recent news:
[11 April 2008] Presentation of COMBOv2 at Xilinx Academic Forum
New cards of COMBOv2 family were presented at Xilinx Academic Forum in San Jose, California, USA on 28/02/2008. The presented cards drew attention of many academic researchers. Cards of COMBOv2 family offer high performance for network critical application at speed over 10Gbps.
The presentation can be downloaded here
[9 April 2008] FlowMon-1.4.0 released
The FlowMon package is available for download. The new release introduces support for COMBO-2XFP2 interface cards with 10GE interfaces and FlowMon exporters are now able to use IPFIX (IP Flow Information eXport) protocol for sending data to the collector(s).
New featuers include:
- support for COMBO6X mother card with COMBO-2XFP2 add-on card
- support for up to 120 000 flowrecords on COMBO6X card and up to 490 000 flowrecords on COMBO6X card with DRAM
- FlowMon exporters are now able to use IPFIX (IP Flow Information eXport) protocol
- kernel drivers improvements
For more information see FlowMon probe homepage, FlowMon portal, FlowMon Handbook Readme, Release Notes.
[10 March 2008] ids-1.1.2 released
Traffic Scanner package is available for download. ids-1.1.2 package brings final fixes to Traffic Scanner v1. Main changes from ids-1.1.1:
- hardware bugfixes causing probe freezing
- new installation system
- ids-daemon brings -S switch, which enables user to choose post restart script which will be executed after hardware restart. Intended to restart applications like Snort.
- various software fixes
- updated documetation
For more information see
Documents -> Package releases -> ids-1.1.2 user guide.
Traffic Scanner homepage, Traffic Scanner web interface, release notes. errata.[6 March 2008] pci-bridge-1.2.0 released
The PCI Bridge firmware upgrade package pci-bridge-1.2.0 is available for download. The package is intended to work with COMBO6X card with COMBO-4SFPRO or COMBO-2XFP2 add-on cards. The package comes with updated (not NETCOPE) PCI Bridge firmware in version c610.04.07 and contains new pci-bridgelkm tool for easy management of kernel modules needed by the package software. The documentation is available at
Documents -> Package releases -> pci-bridge-1.2.0 user guide.
[20 December 2007] pci-bridge-1.1.0 released
The PCI Bridge firmware upgrade package pci-bridge-1.1.0 is available for download. The package is intended to work with COMBO6X card with COMBO-4SFPRO or COMBO-2XFP2 add-on cards. The package comes with new PCI bridge firmware for the NETCOPE platform. This package release contains NETCOPE PCI bridge in version c610.05.0a. Package also contains updated (not NETCOPE) PCI Pridge firmware in version c610.04.06. The documentation is available at
Documents -> Package releases -> pci-bridge-1.1.0 user guide.
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