Capture 15 million packets per second with less than 2% CPU utilization

Simple

PCAPX includes an implementation of the industry standard packet capture (PCAP) application programming interface (API) widely used in network monitoring and security applications.  It seamlessly accelerates PCAP-aware applications on standard commodity hardware without requiring modifications to application source code; while exposing advanced hardware features through a dynamic command-line interface (CLI).  Seamlessly works with the following de facto standard applications:

• Argus
• Bro
• nProbe
• Snort
• Tcpdump
• Wireshark
• YAF

Powerful

PCAPX dramatically boosts the performance of network security and monitoring applications by transparently balancing computationally-intensive operations between an acceleration adapter and multi-core processors. The advanced hardware features enable 100% line-rate packet capture with less than 2% CPU utilization.  Additional features include:

• Filtering and Slicing
• Frame Decoding and Classification
• Hash Key Generation
• Multi-core CPU load-balancing
• High-resolution Time Stamping

Cost-effective

With a simple recompile, developers and solution providers can boost the performance of their applications within hours rather than weeks. With shorter time to market and higher throughput rates, the PCAP Express is the most cost-effective hardware-accelerated packet capture toolkit on the market today.  Drivers available for the following operating systems:

• CentOS / Red Hat
• FreeBSD
• Debian / Ubuntu
• Suse
• Windows