FlowMagic Advanced NPB Functions

Use these components for traffic normalization and conditioning before sending traffic to analysis, capture, or other downstream functions.

Component Reference

Review each component's policy settings before starting or applying a service.

NextIO Advanced Packet Broker functions This page documents 4 components in the Advanced NPB Functions palette group.

For the shared Name, Notes, display, and pad-editing controls, see Common Component Properties.

• Deduplication

• Microburst Shaper

• Detunnel

• True IP

Deduplication

Deduplicate the incoming packets with dedup policy

Configuration Reference

• DeDup Time Window (Microsec) — Dup detection window (100 Microsec - 1 second) Initial value:

  100000.

• Fingerprint Database Size — Fingerprint database size Initial value:

  1000000.

• DeDup Action — Action to take when duplication detected Initial value:

  1.

• Fingerprint method — Method to generate fingerprint Initial value:

  1.

• Ignore L2 Fields — Ignore fields in the packet Initial value:

  L2 DMAC.

• Ignore IPv4 Fields — Ignore IPv4 fields in the packet Initial value:

  TTL.

• Ignore IPv6 Fields — Ignore IPv6 fields in the packet Initial value:

  None.

• L5 Bytes used by Fingerprint — Number of bytes in L5 for fingerprint Initial value:

  16.

• Fingerprint Bytes for Unk. EthType — Finger Print length for unknown ethernet type field Initial value:

  48.

• Fingerprint Bytes for Unk. IPProto — Finger Print length for unknown L3 protocol/NH field Initial value:

  32.

• Compute Resources — Allocate compute resource for the service Initial value:

  1 configured item.

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Microburst Shaper

Smooth microburst traffic

Configuration Reference

• Buffer Size (MB) — Packet buffer size in the unit of MB Initial value:

  1024.

• Max Xmit Bit Rate(Mbps) — Max egress bandwidth Mbit/s Initial value:

  1000.

• Max Xmit Pkt Rate(pps) — Max egress packet rate measured in pkt/s Initial value:

  1000000.

• Receiver PCIe Optimization — Optimize for server PCIe performance Initial value:

  16.

• Compute Resources — Allocate compute resource for the service Initial value:

  1 configured item.

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Detunnel

Remove the tunnel headers

Configuration Reference

• Detunnel Operations — Detunnel Operations Initial value:

  0.

• VxLAN Port — VxLAN Port Number Initial value:

  4789.

• GTP Port — GTP Port Number Initial value:

  2152.

• Header Length to Remove — Header length to remove Initial value:

  0.

• Enable IP — Enable IP address Initial value:

  Disabled.

• ERSPAN IP — ERSPAN IP Address Initial value:

  10.0.0.1.

• ERSPAN MAC — ERSPAN IP MAC binding Initial value:

  not set.

• Compute Resources — Allocate compute resource for the service Initial value:

  1 configured item.

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True IP

Restores the original source IP address after address translation.

Configuration Reference

• HTTP Ports — HTTP Ports Initial value:

  80 8080.

• X-Forwarded-For Headers — HTTP X-FORWARDED-FOR header names Initial value:

  X-FORWARDED-FOR TRUE-CLIENT-IP NS-CLIENT-IP.

• Packet Pool Size (MB) — Packet pool size in the unit of MB Initial value:

  128.

• Compute Resources — Allocate compute resource for the service Initial value:

  1 configured item.

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