Re: pcap Performance Testimonies

[Justin Robinson <csmjmr () bath ac uk>]

Anyone??? Please?
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Justin Robinson 
  To: tcpdump-workers () tcpdump org 
  Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 7:11 PM
  Subject: pcap Performance Testimonies


  Hi there!!

  I'm currently concluding my dissertation that describes a system that relies entirely on the pcap library for 
collecting its information.
  I was unable to run the system in a true test environment.

  Instead I was wondering if a few of you could write some testimonies in favour of pcap's (and tcpdump's) performance 
on capturing
  packets on high speed ethernet connections. Some figures would be great if you have any. I would also like permission 
to quote these testimonies
  and reference their authors in my dissertation.

  I'm looking for TRUE statements along the lines of:

  "I'm using pcap to successfully capture packets at a maximum speed of 300Mbps on a server running on an Intel Pentium 
IV chip, with 512MB of RAM"
  --- Frank Collins, News administrator of FrankCollins.net, on the use of pcap to monitor NNTP connections.

  Thanks in advance for any good testomonies on pcap you can give.

  Many regards
  Justin (MSc. Multimedia Technology, Bath University, UK)