Re: Advice on quad ethernet card

[sekure <sekure () gmail com>]

YMMV, but I am using the PCI-X Quad GigE card from Intel, on HP DL360
and Linux Enterprise Server.  All 4 card interfaces are set to
promisc. and I am using the on-board NIC as the management interface.

Not really seeing any issues described by others, though I am not
coming even close to 100Mbps, more like 10 on each interface.


On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 12:33:04 -0600 (CST), Glenn Forbes Fleming Larratt
<glratt () rice edu> wrote:
> I have done this. I'd advise against that particular configuration, as
> I've experienced bus contention, memory leaking, and general suckage
> requiring weekly prophylactic reboots, when trying to run even 2 of
> the four interfaces on a quad both in promiscuous mode.
>
> Scaling down to one i/f on the quad and deploying a separate card for
> the second tap didn't fully solve, but greatly ameliorated, the
> difficulties I experienced.
>
> At this point, I'd recommend having a separate NIC in a separate slot
> for each tap you want to monitor, plus a separate interface for
> managing the box.
>
>        -g
>
> On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Patrick Marquetecken wrote:
>
> > Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 22:16:14 +0100
> > From: Patrick Marquetecken <patrick.marquetecken () pandora be>
> > To: Snort <snort-users () lists sourceforge net>
> > 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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>                                Glenn Forbes Fleming Larratt
>                                Rice University Networking
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