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From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <jdb@comx.dk>
To: grenville armitage <garmitage@swin.edu.au>
Cc: bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: Re: [Bloat] Dealing with P2P traffic in modern networks - measurement, identification, and control
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 23:58:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1317333515.12658.35.camel@probook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E8388EE.7000106@swin.edu.au>

On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 06:51 +1000, grenville armitage wrote:
> 
> On 09/29/2011 03:40, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> >
> > Thanks Dave,
> >
> > I have always had the dream of implementing a behavioural based traffic
> > classification Netfilter module.  But I have been unable to find some
> > good research in this area, this might be the answer :-)
> >
> > If anybody else on the list have links/articles relating to behavioral
> > traffic classification, I'm interested! :-)
> 
> If by "behavior" you're referring to the statistical patterns within flows
> (packet length variations, inter arrival times, etc) you might be interested
> in our DIFFUSE (http://caia.swin.edu.au/urp/diffuse) work. We've extended
> FreeBSD's ipfw firewall code so that it can recognise traffic based on statistical
> characteristics, and use this (rather than direct packet inspection) to trigger
> e.g. rate shaping, etc. Although our prototype code was initially developed
> for FreeBSD, we've got a preliminary Linux port too. The website contains an
> overview description, docs and patch files against FreeBSD and Linux source.

Thanks, it looks really interesting and it seem to be what I have been
looking for :-)

I have only skimmed the code, but it looks like you have
implemented/ported ipfw to Linux in-order to run your module on top of
that. An interesting approach.

-- 
Best regards,
  Jesper Dangaard Brouer
  ComX Networks A/S
  Linux Network Kernel Developer
  Cand. Scient Datalog / MSc.CS
  Author of http://www.iptv-analyzer.org
  LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer


  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-29 21:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-28 15:56 Dave Taht
2011-09-28 17:40 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2011-09-28 18:03   ` Jesper Louis Andersen
2011-10-03 12:03     ` David Täht
2011-09-28 20:51   ` grenville armitage
2011-09-29 21:58     ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer [this message]
2011-10-01  1:02       ` grenville armitage
2012-04-17  3:23     ` grenville armitage

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