Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Capture with Gbps NIC

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From: "Ronnie Sahlberg" <ronnie_sahlberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 22:37:03 +1000
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From: "Michel Vanden Bossche"
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 5:50 PM
Subject: RE: [Ethereal-users] Capture with Gbps NIC


> ... Thanks for your prompt answers.
> I indeed intend to use ethereal on a switched port with mirroring.
> I will use a pentium 4, W 2K and a Gbps NIC (at 100$ from 3com)
>
> Do you have any idea to which speed I can capture without dropping packets
> with ethereal (we suppose the switch doen't drop packets),  300 Mbps, 500
> Mbps,...?

Use linux as the platform where you capture.
Your sustainable capture rates will be, as reported by several on this list,
significantly higher than with
w2k.

For post capture analysis it should not matter what platform you use.