FlowScale is a project to divide and distribute the traffic over multiple physical ports. FlowScale replicates the functionality in load balancing? appliances but using a Top of Rack (ToR) switch to distribute traffic. Using software to handle the control plane specification but switch hardware to do forwarding gives both great flexibility and allows for low cost, high throughput deployments.
FlowScale components are:
Software will be available soon at Github
FlowScale is currently being deployed as part of the Intrusion Detection Systems operated by the Indiana University Information Security Office
Slides and Poster from the FlowScale presentation at the GENI Engineering Conference 12 in Kansas City
Coming Soon
Coming soon at GitHub
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