On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Andrej van der Zee
<andrejvanderzee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
We are about to buy NICs for sniffing networks by means of port-mirroring on a PC running Linux/Ubuntu. Unfortunately we are not sure yet about the network throughput that we will have to support. We would like to start looking for a 10 Gigabit/sec NIC costing around 250 USD. Moreover, we are not sure about specific NIC-options we should look out for which might further reduce packet drops (such as the various offload-options). Hopefully somebody out there could provide us with more information!
Hi, sorry to piggy back here but I have the same question (NIC recommendation) but with a different requirement - I want to be able to see/capture Ethernet Flow Control frames with Wireshark. Apparently most cards operate on flow control in hardware and never pass the information [1].
So my question is if anyone has a NIC recommendation that will allow flow control analysis?
[1]
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.tcpdump.devel/2054
Tks,
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