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Re: using sniffer on high-bandwidth pipes

  • From: Bruce Pinsky
  • Date: Fri Dec 03 11:35:52 2004 
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Steve Francis wrote:
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| It probably depends more on pps than bandwidth.
| At a prior job, I used FreeBSD 4.x machines to capture over 400,000 pps,
| I think, on gigabit links.
| You need a nic that is supported with one of the device polling drivers
| to keep CPU manageable. (Intel, not yet broadcom.)
|
| FreeBSD far surpassed Solaris in packet capture performance.
|
| Linux 2.6 machines may do OK, using NAPI - but I've no experience with
| that.
|

Eric Weigle and Wu-Chen Feng presented a paper at PAM2002 entitled
"TICKETing High-Speed Traffic with Commodity Hardware and Software"
where they showed collecting traffic at greater than 600Mbps and to 1Gbps
in some configurations.  See http://public.lanl.gov/radiant/pubs.html#TICKET

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