That would probably be all that your system could do.....
What type of traffic data are you looking for?
garl
Tim Howe wrote:
> 64meg of RAM, PCI Intel Etherexpress pro 100+
>
> On Monday 20 August 2001 17:56, you wrote:
> > 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
> >
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