Abstract: The present subject matter relates to computer operating systems, network interface cards and drivers, CPUs, random access memory and high bandwidth speeds. More specifically, a Linux operating system has specially-designed stream buffers, polling systems interfacing with network interface cards and multiple threads to deliver high performance, high bandwidth packets through the kernel to applications. A system and method are provided for capturing, aggregating, pre- analyzing and delivering packets to user space within a kernel to be primarily used by intrusion detection systems at multi-gigabit line rate speeds.

Abstract: Systems and methods of the present invention monitor and manage network devices on a network. More specifically, network architecture is graphically represented in 3-dimensional space. Moreover, the 3-dimensional architecture of the network is mapped and/or overlaid onto a 3-dimensional graphical representation of physical space and displayed on a visual display. In addition, intrusion detection is graphically represented onto the three-dimensional graphical representation of the network architecture.