dual pci nic with bridging

[Brian St. Pierre]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:40 AM, Benjamin Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 ...
>
>  Not what you asked for, but: Would it be feasible to use a small
> managed switch with a monitor/mirror port?  That would give you much
> greater hardware choice, as you wouldn't need a special network card.

I was hoping to put the bridge in the box, but what you suggested is
the "plan b".

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Shawn O'Shea <shawn at eth0.net> wrote:
> 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

Thanks for the pointer, these sound interesting even though that's
>10x the cost target.

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Brian St. Pierre