Re: hardware doubt

[Pedro Marinho <pppmarinho () gmail com>]

Hello,

I was wondering if it is a viable idea. Thanks for the reply.

2010/7/23 Matt Watchinski <mwatchinski () sourcefire com>

> Its a pretty solid way to go.  We use things like this in our
> commercial offerings.
>
> Cheers,
> -matt
>
> On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Pedro Marinho <pppmarinho () gmail com>
> wrote:
> > Hello gentlemen,
> >
> > I don´t know much about hardware but i want to ask if it is possible to
> use
> > VHDL and a development kit like this
> > http://www.xilinx.com/products/devkits/EK-V6-CONN-G.htm
> > to implement some of the snort logic and make things go super faster. I
> was
> > wondering if it is possible to improve performance by implementing in
> > hardware. My question is if you use a FPGA fisically connected at a
> network
> > card could be the answer or another approuch to solve performance issues
> in
> > IDS technology this days instead of multithread or GPU usage?
> >
> > ps: sorry if it is a stupid idea newbie here..
> >
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