Re: [Wireshark-users] Which hardware

2008-02-08 Thread ronnie sahlberg
Use a linux box to run wireshark on instead. It is cheaper than terminal servers and as a bonuson the same hardware, processing the same capture files, wireshark will run several times faster on linux than w2k3 On Sat, Feb 9, 2008 at 1:46 AM, Taco Amory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,

Re: [Wireshark-users] Which hardware

2008-02-08 Thread Ulf Lamping
ronnie sahlberg schrieb: Use a linux box to run wireshark on instead. It is cheaper than terminal servers and as a bonuson the same hardware, processing the same capture files, wireshark will run several times faster on linux than w2k3 Do you have any hard facts, or is this the usual

[Wireshark-users] Which hardware

2008-02-08 Thread Taco Amory
Hi, Maybe somebody could help me? In our company we want to sniff on an Ethernet line to Internet. Currently we have an average throughput of 35 Mbit/s. We have already placed a line tap inline on the connection towards internet. The wish is that more then one user can use wireshark

Re: [Wireshark-users] Which hardware

2008-02-08 Thread ronnie sahlberg
Personal first hand experience. I have tested this myself on several PCs and compared. The same host, the same capture file, the same preferences using the same SVN version of wireshark it ran 2+ times faster when booting into linux than w2k and w2k3. Bear in mind, the tests were all for semi

Re: [Wireshark-users] Which hardware

2008-02-08 Thread ronnie sahlberg
the OSX tests was on similarly specced hardware. I could obviously not test how OSX Wireshark behaved/performed on the same physical machine I tested with Windows. On Sat, Feb 9, 2008 at 11:25 AM, ronnie sahlberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personal first hand experience. I have tested this

Re: [Wireshark-users] Which hardware

2008-02-08 Thread Ulf Lamping
ronnie sahlberg schrieb: Personal first hand experience. SCNR to ask your motivations ;-) I have tested this myself on several PCs and compared. The same host, the same capture file, the same preferences using the same SVN version of wireshark it ran 2+ times faster when booting into