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Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Snort Performance Issues
From: Marko Jennings (markobluegargoyle.com)
Date: Thu Aug 10 2000 - 15:56:00 CDT

How about RAM? How much is needed for 10Mbps?

Thank you.

Marko Jennings

Dragos Ruiu wrote:
>
> On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Dan Hollis wrote:
> > On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Joe Magee wrote:
> > > How much Data (Kb, Mb,etc) per second can snort handle without dropping
> > > packets?
> >
> > I am thinking a good 100bt card (dec tulip 21143) and a reasonably fast
> > CPU (K6/500,Duron,etc) should be able to handle 10 MBytes/sec of
> > traffic. A lot of it will depend on how complex a ruleset you are using.
> >
>
> That configuration should be complete overkill for 10Mbps.
> I've seen 233MMX boxes handle long saturated 10Mbps
> bursts with a tulip and about 1500 rules. YMMV --dr
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