Devdas Bhagat devdas@dvb.homelinux.org wrote: On 21/06/05 11:35 +0530, Sonali Gupta wrote:
Hi,
We are using Snort on Linux in the binary packet capture mode (capture and log in tcpdump format). We find packet drops even at 5 Mbps bandwidth which we feel is very low for the hardware we are using. We would be grateful if you can provide any suggestions on the issue.
Hardware used: HP Proliant DL 140 G2. Dual processor, processor speed 2.8 GHz with 512MB RAM and 72 GB SATA HDD, Gigabit network card.
The test setup also makes a lot of difference. Can you elaborate on the test setup?It might just happen that the source of packets might be creating a bottleneck!. In other words either/or both sender/reciever of packets might be creating a bottleneck.
Regards,
Chirag
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