Re: Snort as Gigabit Sensor

[Jason Haar <Jason.Haar () trimble co nz>]

Jeff wrote:

> Some other posts to this thread talk about getting the max performance
> out of a single system, up to 300-500Mbps.  To get a full Gig (well
> 700Mbps or so anyway) of IDS traffic you'll need to load balance a
> server farm.  Check out the Nortel Alteon Web Switches which have IDS

Can I just ask a naive question? Needing to load balance is only due to 
the sites requiring PCI-based IDS isn't it? I mean, there are Gb IDS out 
there - they wouldn't need load balancers would they?

Pretty scary: Gb Ethernet isn't exactly cutting edge these days - being 
required to go over to load balancers must really change the budget 
requirements...

[so sayeth the lucky 100M-max Snort user ;-)]

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