Hi Brad, > For hardware I would stay away from Intel at the moment. We have two systems > presently that are dual Opteron, Dual-core systems:
Yes, I know Opterons are better for this, but we have the following problem. None of the "OEM Security Appliance" providers use Opterons, and few "brand" names use them. If we purchase one of those branded names (HP, Sun) we will find another problem, we dont know of any PCI card (Express) with 2x Gigabit Ethernets but at the same time with LAN Bypass feature. As most of this boxes are used for QoS and NetFlow, most clients like the option of (LAN Bypass the box, as do appliances from Packeteer and such. So we are kind of stuck at this moment with Intel and Xeon, but if you know of any ... ? :) > Using Snort, PF_RING can monitor 1600-1800Mbps, with no packet loss, for the > record :) And I have numbers to prove it! As other have said, impressive ! > As for bridge stability and 2.6 kernel - my company has been shipping this > solution since about this time last year with no problems at all. Deployed > units number very high and no field issues whatsoever. The problem seems to be with latest versions of 2.6 They are changing a lot of stuff and seems to affect the bridging part too offen. Very thankful. Regards. -- Jaime Nebrera - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Consultor TI - ENEO Tecnologia SL Telf.- 619 04 55 18 _______________________________________________ Ntop-misc mailing list [email protected] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop-misc
