On Wed, 23 Jun 2010, Nicholas Sten wrote:
If you find yourself in that gray area where COTS hardware can't save the day anymore, but you're not looking to spend Empirix money, Endace makes some really good cards on which to develop your own very robust systems:
Hardware capture cards really become critical as your traffic grows. With cards like Endance your able to do hardware level filtering and your software still gets the nice libpcap interface it has been using. As a bridge gap before you spend the money on hardware capture cards check out PF Ring. http://www.ntop.org/PF_RING.html
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