thanks Hansang,
I really appreciate your help. I'll try to double the memory and see if
there are any improvements. My goal actually of doing this is to capture
traffic in my network for a long period of time... a 24hr period capture
would be better but if it is not possible for this duration a 12hr long
capture would be fine...
may I also ask if it is practical to use ethereal in monitoring traffic in
my network for long periods of time... does ethereal designed to work like
this... What can you advise to me?
Thank you and best regards,
Percival
From: Hansang Bae <hbae@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: Ethereal user support <ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Ethereal user support <ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: FW: [Ethereal-users] [Ethereal Users] Hardware Specs of
myEthereal PC
Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 00:24:00 -0400
On 12:27 PM 5/23/2005, Percival Jr. Gahunia wrote:
>I would like to follow up my inquiries below... to give you a little
backround on our network, we are a distributor of internet content. we
requested a pool of IP addresses from an ISP and we distribute them to the
customers.. I put my analyzer in the router trunk and there it is I am
capturing a huge amount of packet at a short period of time... for this
reason my PC crashes when I stopped and opening the file...
[snip]
>>Is there anybody there who can suggest the appropriate Specifications
for my PC. The current Specs of my PC right now is Pentium 4 CPU 3.0GHz.
256MB of RAM running in MS Windows XP Pro Version 2002 Service Pack 1.
More memory would help. What good is 3GHz P4 w/ just 256MB of memory *and*
running XP.
But, you can help your cause by just capture the headers. 128Bytes is
pretty decent slice size. There is very little need to capture full
packets unless you need to stitch it back together.
hsb
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