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CoralReef - Supported Hardware

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CoralReef supports a variety of specialized monitoring hardware as well as standard network interfaces. Fiber optic monitoring devices are typically connected to a link by a splitter which diverts a fraction of the light from the link to the monitoring device.
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List of Hardware compatible with the CoralReef suite

FORE ATM OC3mon
OC3mon consists of one or more ForeRunner 200E OC3 ATM atapters, and a PC running FreeBSD with a CoralReef FATM driver (included in the CoralReef package). Current OC3mon hardware specs are here. Information on a DOS-based OC12mon can be found on MCI Worldcom's OC3MON/Coral and Flow Data Information page.


POINT ATM OC12mon and OC3mon
This type of monitor consists of one or more OC12 or OC3 POINT ATM capture cards from Applied Telecom, and a PC running FreeBSD with a CoralReef POINT driver (included in the CoralReef package). Information on a DOS-based OC12mon can be found on MCI Worldcom's OC3MON/Coral and Flow Data Information page. NB: Apptel has discontinued production of their POINT products.


DAG ATM/POS OC12/OC3mon
The OC12/OC3 dag monitor consists of one or more DAG3 capture cards from the WAND group at the University of Waikato in New Zealand, a PC running LINUX with a DAG driver.


OC48mon (currently under development)
A huge conglomeration of PCs and custom networking hardware that will be able to listen to at least parts of an OC48 link. see CAIDA's NGI proposal to DARPA.


DS3 dag card (currently under development)
The DS3 dag card is another product of the WAND group at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. This card does DS3 capture.


others
CoralReef can read from live pcap interfaces, so it is possible to use CoralReef software to monitor any network interface that can be read by tcpdump/libpcap.



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