Netify Agent Requirements

Netify is a lightweight, high-performance deep packet inspection (DPI) and traffic intelligence solution that delivers real-time network telemetry and actionable insights with minimal resource overhead. Optimized for efficiency, Netify can operate on a wide range of hardware platforms - from embedded systems to enterprise servers - while maintaining accurate protocol detection and flow analysis.

The following sections outline the minimum and recommended system requirements for deploying Netify on supported platforms.

Supported Operating Systems

Linux

Kernel 3.10 or newer recommended
x86_64, ARM, and MIPS architectures supported

FreeBSD

Version 13 or newer recommended
x86_64 architecture supported

Supported Containers

Installation Footprint

Netify's installation requires approximately 10MB of storage. Additional space may be required for:

Commercial signatures
Installed Netify plugins
Local logging or telemetry storage
Local caching

Recommended Cores

Based on Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 v4 @ 2.20GHz

Network Capture Performance

NFQUEUE redirects traffic to user space and often serves as a bridge to specialized hardware packet accelerators for high-throughput processing. TPACKET_V3 is a high-performance, zero-copy interface that batches packets into memory blocks to minimize CPU overhead. PCAP is the industry-standard library that provides a portable API for packet capture and filtering.

NFQUEUE

Active flows	Minimum	Recommended
1-500	1	1 or more
500-1000	1	2
1000-100K	2	3
100K+	2	4

TPACKET_V3

Active flows	Minimum	Recommended
1-500	1	2
500-1000	2	4
1000-100K	4	6
100K+	6	8

PCAP

Active flows	Minimum	Recommended
1-500	1	2
500-1000	2	4
1000-100K	N/A	N/A
100K+	N/A	N/A

Performance Considerations

Netify performance can be highly influenced by:

Packet capture rate and interface bandwidth
Type of bandwidth (long-running flows vs. short/sporadic)
Number of active flows
Type and number of plugins enabled
Logging and telemetry frequency
Configuration