Introduction¶
The nmeta2 (pronounced en-meta two) project is founded on the belief that innovation in networks requires a foundation layer of knowledge about both the participants and their types of conversation.
Background¶
Today, networks generally have only a limited view of participants and conversation types
The goal of the nmeta2 project is to produce network metadata enriched with participant identities and conversation types to provide a foundation for innovation in networking.
The production of enriched network metadata requires policy-based control, and ability to adapt to new purposes through extensibility.
Enriched network metadata has a number of uses, including classifying flows for QoS, billing, traffic engineering, troubleshooting and security.
Nmeta2 is a research platform for traffic classification on Software Defined Networking (SDN). It runs on top of the Ryu SDN controller (see: http://osrg.github.io/ryu/).
Distributed System¶
Nmeta2 distributes the heavy-lifting work of traffic classification to auxiliary devices, called a Data Plane Auxiliary Engines (DPAE), that scale horizontally.
See separate repository for DPAE
Limitations¶
Nmeta2 code is under construction, so a number of features are not implemented yet, or not finished.
Privacy Considerations¶
Collecting network metadata brings with it ethical and legal considerations around privacy. Please ensure that you have permission to monitor traffic before deploying this software.
Disclaimer¶
This code carries no warrantee whatsoever. Use at your own risk.
How to Contribute¶
Code contributions and suggestions are welcome. Enhancement or bug fixes can be raised as issues through GitHub.
Please get in touch if you want to be added as a contributor to the project:
Email: Nmeta Maintainer