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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Adrian Duralia <adrian@techexpress.ro>
Cc: users@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-users] middlebox using dkdp
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2018 21:25:06 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180113212506.03497509@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANOA3aD-VEYqh=YXDA0BpCgn_DFSViNC_eRjmBCouVA+LyBoJg@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, 13 Jan 2018 22:10:55 +0200
Adrian Duralia <adrian@techexpress.ro> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm curious if it would be possible to implement a middlebox device using
> dpdk, that can filter & sign all traffic.
> My goal is to be able to filter some packets and also to secure the
> communication between a few computers (that cannot be updated/modified) on
> the same LAN and I'm thinking to place such device in front on each
> computer, leaving current network topology untouched.
> I had a look at the existing samples in dpdk and l2fwd-crypto seems to be a
> good place to start.
> 
> Thank you,
> Adrian

DPDK is about sending and receiving packets. It has pieces that could be used
to handle IP etc, but really 95% of the work would have to be in the application.
So yes, you could build a middlebox; but lots left to do.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-14  5:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-13 20:10 Adrian Duralia
2018-01-14  5:25 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2018-01-14 11:53   ` Adrian Duralia
2018-01-14 17:12     ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-01-14 18:51     ` tom.barbette
2018-01-15 17:55       ` Adrian Duralia

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