TCP-Stream Reassembly and State Tracking in Hardware

  • Authors:
  • Marc Necker;Didier Contis;David Schimmel

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • FCCM '02 Proceedings of the 10th Annual IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

In this paper we consider a new approach to network intrusion detection. Conventional network intrusion detection systems (NIDS) are software based. We propose to selectivelyimplement portions of the functionality of a state-of-the-art software NIDS in reconfigurable hardware. This increases performance even under hostile loads and will enable efficient intrusion detection in future multi-gigabit networks. Specifically , we consider the problem of TCP-stream reassembly. We present a high-performance TCP stream reassembly and state tracking module targeted for incorporation into an agile reconfigurable network interface based on Xilinx Virtex technology.