23 Jul
2008
23 Jul
'08
2:21 p.m.
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Naveen Nathan <naveen@calpop.com> wrote:
The Endace DAG cards claim they can move 7 gbps over a PCI-X bus from the NIC to main DRAM. They claim a full 10gbps on a PCIE bus.
I wonder, has anyone heard of this used for IDS? I've been looking at building a commodity SNORT solution, and wondering if a powerful network card will help, or would the bottleneck be in processing the packets and overhead from the OS?
http://www.endace.com/our-products/ninja-appliances/NinjaProbe-NIDS snort at 1g & 10g -chris