[106137] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Software router state of the art
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Wed Jul 23 14:22:40 2008
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:21:58 -0700
From: "Christopher Morrow" <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: "Naveen Nathan" <naveen@calpop.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080723180550.GC1967@armakuni.lastninja.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Naveen Nathan <naveen@calpop.com> wrote:
>> 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?
http://www.endace.com/our-products/ninja-appliances/NinjaProbe-NIDS
snort at 1g & 10g
-chris
