Gigabit link monitoring

[Stas Khirman]

Did somebody have information on the number of packets per second
successfully processed by Bro?

Stas Khirman

		-----Original Message-----
		From:	Kyle C Quest [mailto:mazequest at hotmail.com]
		Sent:	Tuesday, July 25, 2000 7:41 AM
		To:	bro at lbl.gov
		Subject:	Re: Gigabit link monitoring

		>What's crucial is the make-up of the traffic: how much is
there, how much
		>of it matches the filter, and what sort of analysis has to
be performed
		>for the captured traffic.

		Right. I just assumed a high load gigabit network where one
bro
		would need to do a lot of processing.

		Anyway, having several bros monitoring different traffic
would
		also help...



		>We currently have several Bro's monitoring GigEther links.
They don't
		>usually have trouble keeping up, and this is running on old
hardware.
		>However, even LBL's access link is nowhere close to
saturated.


	
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