On 24.12.2010 06:18, Sebastian Zander wrote: > Hi all, > > We believe this may be of some interest to list members, and > apologise in advance for any duplicates you may receive. > > We are pleased to announce DIFFUSE v0.1, our first release of a > system enabling FreeBSD's IPFW firewall subsystem to classify IP > traffic based on statistical traffic properties. > > With DIFFUSE v0.1, IPFW computes statistics (such as packet lengths > or inter-packet time intervals) for observed flows, and uses > ML (machine learning) techniques to assign flows into classes. > In addition to traditional packet inspection rules, IPFW rules > may now also be expressed in terms of traffic statistics > or classes identified by ML classification. This can be helpful > when direct packet inspection is problematic (perhaps for administrative > reasons, or because port numbers do not reliably identify classes of > applications). > > DIFFUSE also enables one instance of IPFW to send flow information > and classes to other IPFW instances, which then can act on such > traffic (e.g. prioritise, accept, deny, etc) according to its class. > This allows for distributed architectures, where classification at > one location in your network is used to control fire-walling or > rate-shaping actions at other locations. > > DIFFUSE v0.1 contains an example classifier model for identifying > real-time first person shooter game traffic. In the next release we > will include a classifier model to detect Skype traffic. > > The project site (http://caia.swin.edu.au/urp/diffuse) contains a more > comprehensive introduction, including application examples, links to > related work and documentation describing the design of our software. > > DIFFUSE v0.1 is a set of patches for FreeBSD-CURRENT, and can be > obtained directly from > http://caia.swin.edu.au/urp/diffuse/downloads.html > > The software was developed as part of the DIFFUSE research project at > Swinburne University's Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures. The > project has been made possible in part by a grant from the Cisco > University Research Program Fund at Community Foundation Silicon Valley. > > We welcome your feedback and hope you enjoy playing with the code and > tools. > > Cheers, > > Sebastian Zander and Grenville Armitage > > http://caia.swin.edu.au
It would be nice to provide patches for RELENG_8 to get broader testing. Eugene Grosbein _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
