Also, the disks can definitely be a bottleneck for such a network speed. The links Jaap was referring to don't seem to talk about that.
I would definitely use a separate disk, maybe SCSI 10k RPM. Or a fast SATA. Have a nice day GV ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jaap Keuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Community support list for Wireshark" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 10:30 PM Subject: Re: [Wireshark-users] Help on tcpdump or dumpcap > Hi, > > That is some serious speed. That requires adequate hardware and > processing. Google the net for high speed network capture and see what's > been said. like: > http://www.tcpdump.org/lists/workers/2005/01/msg00031.html and this > http://luca.ntop.org/nCap.pdf > > Thanx, > Jaap > > On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, ARAMBULO, Norman R. wrote: > >> Sebastien Tandel, >> >> Thanks for the info, yup we already tried it but it seems it doesnt work. >> What we are trying to do is capture packets and save it in another file >> >> where tshark or tethereal process it, we tried using tcpdump or dumpcap >> but it doesnt work, the network is relatively high about approx. >> 500Mb/sec. >> >> Can someone help me. Thanks >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wireshark-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-users _______________________________________________ Wireshark-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-users
