FastNetMon Usage in the wild

Wed Oct 18 21:54:15 UTC 2023

We (AperNet) have an open-source anti-ddos flow monitor called apermon
that provides some interesting capabilities.

https://github.com/apernet/apermon

On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 8:51 AM Adam Thompson <athompson at merlin.mb.ca> wrote:
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> Sorry for the late reply... Sightline *Insight* is the piece the sales team won't sell me, and TAC won't support me, for deployment in our private-cloud environment: it has to be hosted on one of 3 canned server configurations.
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> I am using Sightline/TMS virtually and it's fine there.
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> -Adam
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> Subject: Re: FastNetMon Usage in the wild
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> On 11 Oct 2023, at 01:50, Adam Thompson <athompson at merlin.mb.ca> wrote:
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> you need to buy a moderately-expensive hardware server (they don’t let you virtualize it)
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> To clarify, Sightline has supported virtualization for many years, FYI.
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>  I’m not aware of any anti-DDoS products at ISP scale that aren’t SFlow + Flowspec, possibly including “scrubbing” (diverter box);
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>  I don’t know if it’s an in-band appliance, or a “scrubber”-on-a-stick
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> In addition to flow telemetry, D/RTBH, S/RTBH, and flowspec, Sightline/TMS supports intelligent DDoS mitigation directly in-line or via diversion/reinjection.
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> [Full disclosure:  I am an employee of NETSCOUT.]