I just got done upgrading my snort box to merely "low end" instead of "really low end" hardware. However, I thought some of you might find it interesting that I was successfully running snort 2.0 on an old box with relatively low packet loss (just under 0.1%) sniffing a modestly loaded 2mbit symmetric connection.
I had set up snort by disabling conversation and portscan2, used the lowmem config option and the -k none command line parameter and tuned the ruleset slightly. The process consumed a relatively meager 13mb of ram.
I had been running this snort setup on a Pentium-133 console-only OpenBSD box, with 64mb of ram, and a realtek chipset NIC.
So despite having an inefficient NIC, low end cpu and low ram, snort ran reasonably well, although it was missing a few packets here and there. Not too shabby for such a low-end system. Kudos to Marty, Chris and the others for making snort 2.0 still usable on the low-end setups.
Now I've got it running on a 400mhz PII w/128mb and a better NIC, which is still low end, but it's not nearly as laughable.
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