News from the LOBSTER project

[Kevin Meynell <kevin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

(apologies to those who receive this more than once)

LOBSTER establishes pilot network of Internet monitoring sensors
11/01/2007

The LOBSTER project is pleased to announce the establishment of a 
pilot network of passive Internet monitoring sensors at NRENs and 
ISPs around the world. To date, more than 20 sensors have been 
installed in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, France, Greece, Italy, the 
Netherlands, and Norway (including Svalbard), and are viewable online 
at http://lobster.ics.forth.gr/~appmon/. The geographical locations 
of the sensors are plotted on a worldwide map (utilising Google 
Maps), and examining the traffic data for each sensor is as simple as 
clicking on its icon.

The LOBSTER sensors utilise commodity PC hardware with a variety of 
network adapters (which include the specialised DAG card as well as 
regular NICs), and run the MAPI (or Monitoring Application 
Programming Interface) software that is being developed by the 
LOBSTER project. This allows traffic data to be remotely collected 
for processing by a variety of LOBSTER and third-party applications. 
For privacy reasons, the traffic data made publicly available has 
been anonymised using the AnonTool software that has also been 
developed by the LOBSTER project.

About LOBSTER - An IST project that aims to develop a pilot European 
Infrastructure for accurate Internet traffic monitoring. Based on 
passive monitoring at speeds of up to 10 Gbps, it aims to improve 
understanding of the Internet and help solve difficult performance 
and security problems. More information is available at 
http://www.ist-lobster.org/

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