dual pci nic with bridging

Shawn O'Shea shawn at eth0.net
Wed Aug 18 00:00:38 EDT 2010


The only host-based thing I've seen for something like that are the Endace
DAG cards. They tout 100% packet capture since they take all the processing
off the host CPU. They are not cheap though...I think it was like 6000$ for
a dual port.

http://www.endace.com/endace-dag-high-speed-packet-capture-cards.html

-Shawn

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:20 PM, Brian St. Pierre <brian at bstpierre.org>wrote:

> Anybody have experience with a PCI-based dual-interface NIC that does
> hardware bridging? This would be for a traffic monitoring application,
> so the host cpu must be able to snoop traffic. Software bridging is
> not feasible.
>
> Thanks for any pointers.
>
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