PPE(Packet Process Engine)

What is PPE

Packet Process Engine is a high performance Netwrok Packet Process Engine. It is a universal, flexible, stable architecture which can be used in IDS, IPS, and other Network Security Monitoring System.

Architecture

1. Linux Userspace daemon
2. ManagePlane and Dataplane isolation
3. Dataplane Realtime Multiple-Threads - Run to End mode

All features

Configuration

• Based on CLI Parser(Open Source Software)
• Support Cisco-like CLI commands
• Configuration file load/save
• Multiple Users support

Packet Decoding

• IPv4, TCP, UDP, ICMPv4
• Ethernet, VLAN
• Protocal inspect plugin supporting

TCP/IP engine

• L2/L3 Parser
• IP fragment reassemb
• TCP stream session tracking
• TCP steam reassemb
• Flow engine

Software ACL

• Arbitrary combination of five-tuples + time
• Add/Delete/Show/Modify flexible

System Level Components

• Network Packet Zero-Copy
• Multi Threading
• Cpu Affinity
• Use of fine grained locking and atomic operations for optimal performance
• High performance memory pool

Hardware Platform supporting list

• DPDK (Todo...)

Contributors

PPE is designed and implemented by @Roy Luo. For more information about the author, please visit: http://royluo.org/about