Using Endace DAG vs commodify NICs

[Evgeniy Sudyr <eject.in.ua () gmail com>]

Hi,

I'm planned to evaluate Endace DAG card and even got DAG 7.5G4 from
Ebay seller in Germany, but after that figured that they runs only
with propietary drivers and firmware and drivers were not included in
box and support subscription was expired in 2011.

Means I got HW which is not works and paying ~ 700 EUR for getting
updated driver and firmware make not much sense (to get support
contract from Emulex).

It will be great if someone from snort users or developers can share
some Endace DAG experience, where most interesting for me is how CPU
offloading looks in real world usage scenarios.

Second question is shorter version of previous one - does it make any
big difference to use DAG cards instead of just commodity NICs?

Thank you all in advance!

-- 
Evgeniy Sudyr

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
_______________________________________________
Snort-users mailing list
Snort-users () lists sourceforge net
Go to this URL to change user options or unsubscribe:
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/snort-users
Snort-users list archive:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=snort-users

Please visit http://blog.snort.org to stay current on all the latest Snort news!