pcap Performance Testimonies

[Justin Robinson <csmjmr () bath ac uk>]

Hi there!!

I'm currently concluding my dissertation that describes a system that relies entirely on the pcap library for 
collecting its information.
I was unable to run the system in a true test environment.

Instead I was wondering if a few of you could write some testimonies in favour of pcap's (and tcpdump's) performance on 
capturing
packets on high speed ethernet connections. Some figures would be great if you have any. I would also like permission 
to quote these testimonies
and reference their authors in my dissertation.

I'm looking for TRUE statements along the lines of:

"I'm using pcap to successfully capture packets at a maximum speed of 300Mbps on a server running on an Intel Pentium 
IV chip, with 512MB of RAM"
--- Frank Collins, News administrator of FrankCollins.net, on the use of pcap to monitor NNTP connections.

Thanks in advance for any good testomonies on pcap you can give.

Many regards
Justin (MSc. Multimedia Technology, Bath University, UK)