Sentinels of the Stream: Unleashing Large Language Models for Dynamic
  Packet Classification in Software Defined Networks -- Position Paper
Shariq Murtuza
With the release of OpenAI's ChatGPT, the field of large language models
(LLM) saw an increase of academic interest in GPT based chat assistants. In the
next few months multiple accesible large language models were released that
included Meta's LLama models and Mistral AI's Mistral and Mixtral MoE models.
These models are available openly for a wide array of purposes with a wide
spectrum of licenses. These LLMs have found their use in a different number of
fields like code development, SQL generation etc. In this work we propose our
plan to explore the applicability of large language model in the domain of
network security. We plan to create Sentinel, a LLM, to analyse network packet
contents and pass a judgment on it's threat level. This work is a preliminary
report that will lay our plan for our future endeavors.