Re: Which OS to choose for SNORT? (need help)

[Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com>]

If you are looking at multiple gigabits a second worth of traffic, you'd
have higher success buying a commercial product.

My 0.02.

J

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Sadanand Ghagare <sadanandgh () gmail com>wrote:

> The speed will be in gigabits, though our most production and UAT
> network is on solaris and never faced any gigabits high speed
> performance issue.
>
>
> REgards,
> sadanand
>
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Jason Brvenik
> <jason.brvenik () sourcefire com> wrote:
> > Solaris networking drivers used to be horrible for high speed
> performance. I
> > don't have any recent information to speculate on improvements.
> >
> > It might not matter. What are the speeds we are talking about? From there
> > considerations can be made. Linux on generic intel servers with tulip
> > drivers isn't likely to perform at multigigabit speeds.
> >
> > On Jan 7, 2010 6:23 PM, "Sadanand Ghagare" <sadanandgh () gmail com> wrote:
> >
> > Whether there any performance issue anybody has seen on snort with
> > solaris 10 x86, it is because I am more familiar with solaris OS
> > rather than Linux OS and prefer Solaris OS.
> >
> >
> > REgards,
> > sadanand
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Sadanand Ghagare <sadanandgh () gmail com>
> > wrote: > Thanks for replyin...
>
>
>
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>
>
> Thanks & Regards
>
> Sadanand G.
>
>
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