NIFIC
The aim of the NIFIC project is the development of a
network interface card with hardware packet filtration,
packet forwarding and simple packet replication. This can be used for
line-rate filtering on high speed network interfaces, as the packets
are processed exclusively in hardware. Another potential usage could
be splitting (and filtering) the network stream into several streams
according to packets headers so that for example potentially
dangerous streams can be forwarded into honey-pots. Such a device
is essentially a filtering bridge capable of classifying
packets according to headers of the link, network and possibly
higher layers.
Current state
- 12/2006 - expected date of new NetCOPE based firmware version
- 09/2006 - new completely revised package nific-1.3.0 released
- 07/2006 - improved throughput; bus master DMA controlled by PowerPC; design available for COMBO6X and SFPRO cards.
- 09/2005 - design is available for COMBO6 mother card and MTX and SFP interface cards
- 06/2005 - NIFIC project was derived from the first Liberouter prototype
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