Re: performance snort question

[Roeland Weve <roeland () office netland nl>]

I you use logging into MySQL, you must have a better configuration.
But, yes, I think this works fine when just Snort logs into txt file.

> Lee Smallbone <lee () smallbone com> writes:
>
> > Tuesday, June 19, 2001, 8:44:42 AM, you wrote:
> >
> > EHS> I haven't seen an answer to Roeland's questions so far.  I am
> > EHS> currently considering building a snort box wich should be able to
> > EHS> withstand a saturated 100mbps in worst-case, and have been unable to
> > EHS> find even the slightest hint on what hardware requirement would be
> > EHS> needed to do that.
> >
> >  The author seems fairly sure that a 486 should be able to keep up
> >  with a 100mbit/s link. I'd go one step further and use the following
> >  configuration so I know it would be there if it was needed:
> >
> >                o) old pentium of some sort (P90/100)
> >                o) 32-64mb ram
> >                o) Large disk to cope with logs (pref SCSI or ATA100)
> >                o) Decent, trusted 100mbit/s NIC
>
> Thank you very much for your answer!  I really needed this information
> to support my push for building a snort based IDS box :)
>
> /Esben
>
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