Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Hardware

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From: Alexandros Papadopoulos <apapadop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 17:35:58 +0200
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 16:34, Hensels Leon (ICTS) wrote:
> Dear reader,
>
> what hardware specs do I need to capture data on a 1 GB interface.
> I want to capture data on a port of a switch with a notebook.

It depends on the operating system and the traffic of your network. 
Should we assume that you indeed need to capture 400,000,000 bytes or 
more per second?

I remember reading something on LKML[0] about a limit in the capacity of 
older Linux kernels to handle that much traffic. Not sure about M$ 
systems.

-A

[0] http://lkml.org/