FlowMon running on GE at wire speed

The new version of Header Field Extractor (HFE2) is able to process Gigabit Ethernet traffic at wire speed even for small packets.

HFE2 was implemented for the new generation of COMBO cards, namely COMBO6X motherboard and COMBO-4SFPRO interface card. The firmware throughput was increased by attaching two header parsing modules to each input interface. The first tests show that the FlowMon firmware is indeed able to process GE traffic at wire speed even for 60-byte packets without any losses.