Re: question about hardware requirements

[Koryn Grant <koryn () endace com>]

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Michael Richardson wrote:

> > > > > > "Zhanxiang" == Zhanxiang Huang <zh4c () cs virginia edu> writes:
>     Zhanxiang> In order to use tcpdump snooping 1Gbps traffic without
>     Zhanxiang> dropping packets,
>     Zhanxiang> what are the requirements for the hardware?
>
>     Zhanxiang> Say, how fast should the CUP, memory, cache, buses and hard
>     Zhanxiang> drive be?
>
>   I'm not aware of any current off-the-shelf hardware that can deal with
> this.
>
>   You'd need a PCI-Express equipped system with a NIC card that can deal
> with the data rates involved.
>
>   If you want to do Gb/s, you'll need hardware dedicated to the purpose.
> I.e. Smartbits, etc.


A PCI-X system works fine, provided you have the right network card.
The other hardware requirements depend on whether you are doing real-time
analysis or capturing to disk.

More information is available at:

    http://www.endace.com/gigemon.htm

or email me directly - I did some work tuning one of our Gigemon systems
last year, and should be able to help answer any further questions.

Cheers,
Koryn
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