Re: Re: pcap Performance Testimonies

[Shaun <delius () progsoc uts edu au>]

>   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.

Well, I hate to be the grinch here, but I have had good and bad
experiences with pcap performance, mostly because pcap itself isn't really
responsible for the performance (or lack thereof) of capture, the kernel
drivers it talks to are.

We have had very varied experience with performance from platform to
platform, Linux is pretty ok, Solaris is excellent, AIX is ok
(nothwithstanding a number of bugs), Irix sucks etc. etc.

Cheers,
Shaun

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