[Jens Link <lists@xxxxxxx>]

Carol Davids <cdavids@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I am wondering if the volume of the stream being captured is
> overwhelming the ethereal application or if the ethereal aplication
> would run better on a faster machine.

I think the most import thing is RAM. As long as the OS doesn't need to
swap memory to disk, Ethereal should work fine. You should also use a
good network interface card (see http://www.fefe.de/linuxeth/ for
details). Some cheaper NICs will put additional stress to the CPU of
your computer. 

I'm using Ehtereal on a 800Mhz PIII laptop with 512MB RAM which works 
for me. Depending on the size of capture files you should consider more
RAM. And by the way: RAM is cheap.

Jens