[106133] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Software router state of the art
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Naveen Nathan)
Wed Jul 23 14:06:10 2008
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:05:50 +0000
From: Naveen Nathan <naveen@calpop.com>
To: "William Herrin" <herrin-nanog@dirtside.com>
In-Reply-To: <3c3e3fca0807230907h13bae9e1h55333c57bcdb1b09@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
> The Endace DAG cards claim they can move 7 gbps over a PCI-X bus from
> the NIC to main DRAM. They claim a full 10gbps on a PCIE bus.
I wonder, has anyone heard of this used for IDS? I've been looking at
building a commodity SNORT solution, and wondering if a powerful network
card will help, or would the bottleneck be in processing the packets and
overhead from the OS?
- naveen
