Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Ideas for 10G capture platform?

From: Anders Broman <anders.broman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 11:02:37 +0200
Hi,
I found this article interesting http://staff.washington.edu/corey/gulp/
Regards
Anders 

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From: wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ian Schorr
Sent: den 8 juni 2010 09:51
To: Community support list for Wireshark
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-users] Ideas for 10G capture platform?

I'm also curious.  Although I'm assuming we're in a similar state to the capture situation with 1Gig Ethernet 8 or so years, where:

- Few NICs could actually receive and process packets at line speed.
- A surprisingly large number of NICs refused to enter passive mode, and some had problems allocating buffers properly for jumbo frame handling.
- There were few, if any, inline capture solutions that could capture bidirectionally, though fiber taps were possible.  Copper taps were not yet available.
- For extended captures (more than a few seconds), disk speed is a tremendous bottleneck and nowhere near linespeed+full packet capture is possible, even with modestly-expensive RAID solutions.
- Host BUS speeds actually became a problem, either becoming a quick bottleneck when others (NIC+disk) were loosened, or exacerbating them.

...But I have done no testing of my own this time around.

-Ian

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> has anyone experience doing 10G-Ethernet capture with Wireshark? I'm 
> interested in information about the hardware and problems (performance 
> bottlenecks etc).
>
> Thanks
>  Joerg
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