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Re: Hardware capture platforms

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Dobbins)
Wed Jul 30 20:11:03 2008

From: Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@cisco.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0807301739040.21428@bart.robotics.net>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:10:44 +0700
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org


On Jul 31, 2008, at 5:44 AM, nathan@robotics.net wrote:

> Check out Endace cards, that will let you do line rate gig e or  
> better and has native libpcap interface.

I believe Endace also have a productized box containing their capture  
cards (NinjaProbe); it can be used to capture packets, and can also  
export NetFlow telemetry based upon the captured traffic.  Arbor,  
Narus, and Lancope have similar NetFlow-via-packet-capture capabilities.

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