Re: OS options to monitor traffic over a 1GiB and 10 GiB

["C. L. Martinez" <carlopmart () gmail com>]

On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 8:28 PM, livio Ricciulli <livio () metaflows com> wrote:
> Waldo is right however we should NOT throw away quantitative
> analysis and give up. If you understand the different dimensions
> of sensitivity, you can easily do quantitative experiments to say
> configuration A is better than configuration B given the same traffic
> and the same rules (for example)..
>
> So, as Waldo says, plain absolute numbers are usually not very
> meaningful, but relative numbers are very, very important.. I would
> love to see someone do relative comparison of BSD VS Linux using
> PF_RING and identical configurations and identical traffic..
>
> Livio.

I agree with both ... I will do two installs: one with BSD and antoher
with CentOS+PF_RING ...

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