31 Aug
2005
31 Aug
'05
8:48 p.m.
On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 20:37 +0100, Chris Glover wrote:
Hi,
Here's one for the networking gurus on this list :-)
I did a fair amount of benchmarking with Linux (needed a very low cost traffic generator).
Performance with a cheap Realtek card wasn't much more than 40Mbps on a 1Ghz athlon (CPU usage at 99 %). On a P4 2.4Ghz with and a 3Com it was possible to saturate a 100 Mbits LAN (CPU usage was around 30 %).
I'm not familair enough to judge the quality of the broadcom cards, but a better quality card maay be worth a try.
It may be less resource intensive to bridge the ports (assuming you can still hook Snort in-line that is).
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