No, that is a dinosaur and is not sufficient.
If you want to capture a saturated 100baseT connection any
entry level single-cpu pc today should be able to cope with it fine.
If not, you should install linux, enable dma and try again.
If you want to capture high load GbE you probably in my experience need
two good GbE cards and a dual CPU Linux box with a good disk
subsystem, i.e. multiple cheap ide disks striped together.
a very old toshiba laptop starved for memory will probably baerly be
sufficient to capture 10baseT
on a half-duplex network if even that considering it will spend 90% cpu in
trashing the pagefile.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Malcolm Jackson"
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 10:28 PM
Subject: [Ethereal-users] What about the minimum spec - full stop??
>
> Hi,
>
> The chat about the minimum spec for a 100M line was interesting; till
it
> got to the subject of dropped packets.
>
> Do you think that a Toshiba Satellite 310CDS with 200Mhz Pentium and
32M
> ram sufficient? It's currently running Win95. We've been offered it, used,
> and we intend to use it mostly for grabbing network traces on 10M LANs
that
> have Gigabit backbone connections. Are we in danger of dropping packets
here?
>
> Any thoughts/advice appreciated as we're just about to hand over the
cash
> for these laptops and I'd hate to see us wasting our money.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mal.
>
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