DPDK...

[NollipfSense]

DPDK is available for FreeBSD and I saw this today on Twitter, see below:

So, what the story...is it better than Netmap? Has anyone incorporates it into production mode IPS/IDS yet and can offer feedback?

For Bill (@bmeeks) have you tested DPDK yet? is there an option to use DPDK or Netmap?

[bmeeks]

@nollipfsense said in DPDK...:

DPDK is available for FreeBSD and I saw this today on Twitter, see below:
For Bill (@bmeeks) have you tested DPDK yet? is there an option to use DPDK or Netmap?

No and no.

There are many details involved with using DPDK, and more especially with an Inline IPS Mode. There is someone working on DPDK support in Suricata. I saw some posts in a thread on the Suricata forums here: https://forum.suricata.io/t/discussion-for-dpdk-api-support-into-suricata/202.

[NollipfSense]

@bmeeks Thank you for sharing that link despite been a long thread...would be interesting if we could have a choice DPDK or Netmap.

[NRgia]

@nollipfsense said in DPDK...:

DPDK is available for FreeBSD and I saw this today on Twitter, see below:

So, what the story...is it better than Netmap? Has anyone incorporates it into production mode IPS/IDS yet and can offer feedback?

There are also the following videos on their official YouTube channel, where they explained during this year's Suricon.

Accelerating Suricata with DPDK Prefilters
and
Enabling Suricata in the Cloud at Scale Using DPDK

[NollipfSense]

@nrgia The DPDK Prefilters are surely interesting...

[A Former User]

DPDK is for many more things able to use.

DPDK network performance
Routing
Something about in Netgates Blog
About try-fwd, netmap-fwd and fastforward
DPDK Summit
Different things about DPDK
VPP & DPDK
VPP pfrofitting

[NollipfSense]

@dobby_ Yes, it appears, if they can get it out of user space...