Re: OS options to monitor traffic over a 1GiB and 10 GiB

["C. L. Martinez" <carlopmart () gmail com>]

On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 5:44 PM, Robert Vineyard <vineyard () tuffmail com> wrote:
> Wow. Very impressive work.
>
> You guys are clearly much further along with this stuff than when I last
> played around with it. I can't wait to try out the new version. :-)
>
> On a related note, do you have any recommendations on acquiring an
> 82599-based card (preferably one with copper ports like the X520-T2) in
> the USA at a reasonable price? The cheapest one I've found so far is
> $500 from Dell, but only if you buy it as part of a PowerEdge server
> configuration. A la carte, the same card runs about $800.
>
> Thanks,
> Robert

Many thanks to all for your answers ... From hardware side I think I
have got all pretty clear, but my question is about SO to use: BSD or
Linux distro ... According your answers, most people use Linux distro
with PF_RING, but nobody have tried to use FreeBSD or OpenBSD to
accomplish this??

Thanks.

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