Re: newbie to snort

[Dragos Ruiu <dr () kyx net>]

On Thu, 02 Aug 2001, Dragos Ruiu wrote:
> BTW my only rule of thumb so far on box sizing is:
> a P133 is good for 10MBps
> a P350-400 is needed at a minimum to avoid packet
> loss on a 100MBps interface. Marty uses a Celeron 400

Ooops, that's a celeron 300...

> for T1's and cablemodems as a mileage point.... 
> a p750-800 is good for two 100 interfaces on the same box
> (and 850+ _might_ be good for 3 with light loading and traffic
> but this is highly config dependent and there are some 
> other OS/NIC achitecture issues you start to hit at 270MBps+)
>
> Of course all of these are dependent on how hard you push rules
> database, OS, RAM, config and traffic, yadda yadda yadda... etc...
>
> As usual YMMV!

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