A Network Management System Based on DPI

Abstract

More and more network applications have appeared in recent years. Government, university, industry and individual Internet users and network services need more bandwidth and various network applications. Many new network protocols are proposed so that it is now becoming harder to manage the network. In the conditional network, every network protocol uses the fixed port, the so-called well-known port number. In the past, it was easy to classify and manage the network traffic because we could identify the network service by the port number. However, new types of network applications do not use fixed port number. The method of traffic classification with fixed port number is inadequate. In recent years, the DPI (Deep Packet Inspection) is used to classify the traffic. This study deploys a NMS (network management system) based on DPI and SNMP. The NMS controls the network devices and services according to the traffic classification of DPIS (DPI server). The platform of DPIS is implemented on the Netfilter framework in Linux kernel.