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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.
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.
- 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). 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.