RE: Advice on quad ethernet card

["Darden, Patrick S." <darden () armc org>]

I don't think this is a good idea.  You will see a lot of drops if you have
any amount of traffic at all.  If you simply must have this on one box, then
get two dual-ethernet cards, and make sure they are each on a different
internal bus, and put the two lightest trafficced networks on the same card.
That might help.

With a potential of about ~210Mbps (3*70), you shouldn't need a super-fast
disk subsystem at ~25MBps (210Mbps/8) written, but you should make it SCSI
in order to reduce CPU utilization.  The 3 network connections will take up
some cpu, snort itself will take up a bit, and if you use a large ruleset
you could be swamped (IOs for each of the cards and the disks).

I take it the 4'th nic is going to be used to send data to your remote mysql
server....  This could be the straw that breaks the camel's back.

It will be interesting to see how well this works!

--Patrick Darden
--snort, ids, cisco, unix
--linux, firewalls, security


-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Marquetecken [mailto:patrick.marquetecken () pandora be]
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 4:16 PM
To: Snort
Subject: [Snort-users] Advice on quad ethernet card


Hi,

At my work they are thinking of replacing 3 snort machines by one with a
quad Ethernet card, witch will sniff 3 different lan's.
The network is only 100Mbit, will there not a lot of dropped packages this
way, and they must all send there data with barnyard to a remote mysql
server.
Is it also possible to see in the Database from witch sensor the data is
from? 

TIA
Patrick

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