64meg of RAM, PCI Intel Etherexpress pro 100+
On Monday 20 August 2001 17:56, you wrote:
> How much memory do you have and how fast is your network connection. Also
> is your NIC a PCI or ISA card?
>
> Garl
>
> Tim Howe wrote:
> > I was running tcpdump to capture network traffic in a file for about 20
> > seconds as a test. There was a LOT of traffic and this file ended up
> > being about 1.2meg in size... At that rate, if I ran tcpdump for 1.5
> > hours it would fill that file system... So what I'm wondering is this:
> > If I pipe tcpdump's output to a perl program that keeps a cumulative log
> > that doesn't get very big, will it be able to run fast enough on this
> > 166mhz machine to keep up with the packet data? How fast can perl run?
> > How fast can it parse data? Am I looking at this all wrong?
> >
> > Tim
>
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