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
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FORE ATM OC3mon
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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.
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POINT ATM OC12mon and OC3mon
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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.
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DAG ATM/POS OC12/OC3mon
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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.
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OC48mon (currently under development)
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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.
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DS3 dag card (currently under development)
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The DS3 dag
card is another product of the
WAND group at the
University of Waikato, New Zealand. This card does DS3 capture.
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others
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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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