On Sun, 9 Jun 2002, Justin Funke wrote: > I am going to deploy tcpdump on a full duplex LAN tap capturing the full > packets (-s 1500)
-s1514 > Does anyone know what the processor/ram requirements would be to just > write these packets to a file. > > I don't think it would take much but finding specifics is proving to be > difficult. My experience is that processor/ram is not the biggest problem. Only if that same box also should analyze the tcpdump file, it should have much ram and proc power. Disksize is probably the biggest problem.. Greetings, Richard. ---- An OS is like swiss cheese, the bigger it is, the more holes you get!
