How much memory do you have and how fast is your network connection. Also is your NIC a PCI or ISA card? Garl Tim Howe wrote: > I was running tcpdump to capture network traffic in a file for about 20 > seconds as a test. There was a LOT of traffic and this file ended up being > about 1.2meg in size... At that rate, if I ran tcpdump for 1.5 hours it > would fill that file system... So what I'm wondering is this: If I pipe > tcpdump's output to a perl program that keeps a cumulative log that doesn't > get very big, will it be able to run fast enough on this 166mhz machine to > keep up with the packet data? How fast can perl run? How fast can it parse > data? Am I looking at this all wrong? > > Tim -- ============================================================================= Garl R. Grigsby Senior Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com ============================================================================= -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- =============================================================================
