Re: hardware requirements

[David Alonso De La Vega Tapage <delavegad () bancoaliado com>]

I don't thing sooo ..

Snort certanly is a great IDS  with too  much powerfull  but, run in 
this Box as you describe perfect with normal IDE drivers ...  I mean 
thta you only need 512 Ram ..   and 512 on swap, for prevention, maybe 
don't use that never ..


Brei, Matt wrote:

> Greetings,
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> I would like to get an idea on what type of hardware you are all 
> running snort on and what size network it services.  I plan on using 
> snort/MySQL/acid to monitor internet usage and log policy violation on 
> a network with about 100 users.  I have the same basic set up at home 
> with snort running on a 450 K6-2 logging to MySQL/acid on a 1100 
> Athlon both using PC133 and standard IDE drives (ATA100 and UDMA66).  
> With this many users and having all of the components 
> (snort/MySQL/acid) all on 1 machine, would It be a good idea to go 
> with SCSI, DDR and 10/100/1000?  This setup also needs to be scalable 
> up to about 250 users.
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> Thanks,
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> Matt Brei
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