Re: Which OS to choose for SNORT? (need help)

["Randal T. Rioux" <randy () procyonlabs com>]

Yeah, my guide up there is for SPARC. I've not used Solaris on x86 yet. If
there is enough demand I can make one for x86.

Actually, I'll try it out this weekend and follow-up. Now I have an excuse
to tinker with Solaris/x86.

Randy

On Fri, January 8, 2010 1:12 pm, Sadanand Ghagare wrote:
> can anybody forward me documentation for Snort on solaris x86. I found
> one on snort.org but it has been tested on solaris SPARC?
> anybody has snort on solaris x86 and give me some idea about concern
> we have with it?
>
>
> Regards,
> sadanand
>
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com> wrote:
> > If you are looking at multiple gigabits a second worth of traffic, you'd
> > have higher success buying a commercial product.
> > My 0.02.
> > J
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Sadanand Ghagare <sadanandgh () gmail com>
> > wrote:
> > > The speed will be in gigabits, though our most production and UAT
> > > network is on solaris and never faced any gigabits high speed
> > > performance issue.
> > >
> > >
> > > REgards,
> > > sadanand
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Jason Brvenik
> > > <jason.brvenik () sourcefire com> wrote:
> > > > Solaris networking drivers used to be horrible for high speed
> > > > performance. I
> > > > don't have any recent information to speculate on improvements.
> > > >
> > > > It might not matter. What are the speeds we are talking about? From
> > > > there
> > > > considerations can be made. Linux on generic intel servers with tulip
> > > > drivers isn't likely to perform at multigigabit speeds.
> > > >
> > > > On Jan 7, 2010 6:23 PM, "Sadanand Ghagare" <sadanandgh () gmail com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > Whether there any performance issue anybody has seen on snort with
> > > > solaris 10 x86, it is because I am more familiar with solaris OS
> > > > rather than Linux OS and prefer Solaris OS.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > REgards,
> > > > sadanand
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Sadanand Ghagare
> > > <sadanandgh () gmail com>
> > > > wrote: > Thanks for replyin...
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks & Regards
> > >
> > > Sadanand G.
> > >
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