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Hardware capture platforms

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John A. Kilpatrick)
Tue Jul 29 19:11:50 2008

Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:10:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: "John A. Kilpatrick" <john@hypergeek.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org


We've deployed a bunch taps in our network and now we need a platform on 
which to capture the data.  Our bandwidth is currently pretty low but 
I've got 8 links to tap, which means I need 16 ports.  Has anyone done any 
research on doing accurate packet capture with commodity hardware?


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