Re: hardware requirements

[Rich Adamson <radamson () routers com>]

Right, so his original question should be reworded to be
oriented towards when will snort begin dropping packets,
etc. I've not seen anyone try to qualify motherboards, etc,
under different traffic loads, rule sets, etc.

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> Rich,
>
> Yes this is true however most people use GigE Cards
> for traffic environments where major traffic, ie 1000
> Meg traffic,  is expected....
>
> Theo
>
> --- Rich Adamson <radamson () routers com> wrote:
>
> > > Greetings, I would like to know if anyone has any
> > hardware recommendations to run SNORT on. 
> > specifically im looking to put a GigE NIC in a
> > > box and would like to know how fast a CPU and
> > memory etc etc.
> >
> > Just about any box will work, however what you
> > really want to know
> > is... at what level of traffic will snort begin to
> > drop packets.
> > In other words, its traffic volume dependent, not
> > GigE dependent.
> >
> > I've got several Win32 boxes running just fine on
> > boxes that came
> > with GigE ports, but the traffic volumes at those
> > locations are so
> > low that snort could have been using a 10meg port.
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